Is there a text editor which offers horizontal, rather than vertical, scrolling (showing two pages side by side)?
I currently use TextMate, but would switch to any editor which offers this layout. I'm getting really bored of scrolling up and down, over and over.
I've attached a screenshot of MS Word, which has a side-by-side horizontal scroll view for documents longer than a page.
I want something like that, Any recommendations?
Emacs offers a follow-mode which you might find helpful ( see for instance here http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/FollowMode).
A short description of how it is used and what it does:
You need to open a buffer in two windows and enter follow-mode using M-x follow-mode. This is actually a bit of a drawback, because you need to learn how to use emacs, if you don't know it already (imho learning how to use emacs is worth spending some time).
After entering follow-mode the second buffer will skip to the place where the first buffer ends, similar to the page-by-page view offered by Microsoft Word. Now if you move the cursor down one line at a time and you leave the first buffer window at the bottom, the cursor will appear at the top of the second. If you move further down and you are at the bottom of the second window, both buffers will scroll simultaneously, the same holds for page-wise scrolling using C-v and M-v.
If your monitor screen is wide enough, you can open a third window to further increase number of lines being displayed.
I have made a screenshot, which shows a text file opened in this mode: Screenshot auf Follow mode
Hmmm, it seems you are looking for layout features which you aren't likely to find in a text editor. Text editors are generally line based and don't understand the concept of pages. Text editors do things like code folding and allow lines to be wrapped or not. That is why text editors scroll in the vertical direction. These factors would affect pagination.
The concept of a page (and being able to lay them out side by side) doesn't really exist unless you are using a presentation manager such as a word processor or a desktop publishing package.
In vim: <Esc>:vsplit will open a second column for the file.
In all fairness, I should warn you that Vim has a steep learning curve, and will force you to wrap your head around new concepts like command mode / edit mode / visual mode. The results are definitely worth it, if you have the time to learn it.
I'm not sure if I know exactly what you want. Does Sublime Text 2's two-column layout with File > New View Into File do what you want?
A change on one side is reflected instantly in the other side, and you can scroll them independently. You can have up to four columns per window.
In LibreOffice Writer, go to View -> Zoom... and set Zoom factor to Fit width and height, and set View layout to Automatic. You can also set the number of columns manually, and if you choose two columns, you can use Book Mode.
With scroll-binding in vim, you can edit two files side by side: scroll-binding in Vim.
Show a text file with two columns in vim: http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/View_text_file_in_two_columns
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I have an XtraReport that overflows text on to the next page but occasionally cuts the last line of text from the first page in half when it does.
I would normally handle this with the height property of the text area but I am unsure how to target a specific table row of an XtraReport to work out what the remaining height of the page is to achieve this or whether that would even work in this instance.
I'm rather hoping there's a simple work around to achieve this, please don't go too much out of your way to help out as I won't be investing much development on this.
I don't think there are any settings I have missed within the designer, perhaps there's a golden font size or line height that the reports want to overflow correctly.
Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
If there is no simple way, I will just have to loop through the tr / td tags and see if by manipulating the height I can find that sweet spot, i just worry that it will hide page 1 but still be split on page 2.
It seems to me that you use the ASPx/MVCx -DocumentViewer,
this control shows you a html content which is not suitable for pixel-perfect documents.
I recommend you to try the ASPx/MVCx WebDocumentViewer which is like the the Google Docs shows pixel-perfect document and more convenient with bootstrap and other progressive web frameworks.
here are demo and docs.
I would like to embed another widget in one end of a GTK+ 3 text entry box, a bit like many browsers do with search or protocol security "chips":
I know I can set an icon on a text entry with
entry = Gtk.Entry()
entry.set_icon_from_icon_name(Gtk.EntryIconPosition.PRIMARY, icon_name)
Even if I pass my own GdkPixbuf to set_icon_from_pixbuf this still limits me to icon sizes, when I want some arbitrary size (at least horizontally) depending on the "chip" content.
I also tried to "shunt" the text over with set_margin_left, but this moved the left edge of the whole entry box over, rather than the text within the box.
What would be an effective way to embed some other GTK+ widget (hopefully of any complexity, so I can make the chip more interactive) within a text entry?
GtkEntry is not a container, so it cannot have child widgets.
The appropriate way to implement what you see in the screenshot is to use a separate container and style it appropriately.
Have you considered putting the entry inside a frame, and restyling stuff to make it look like it was inside an entry? Then you could use standard containers to put whatever widgets next to the text entry spaces that you wanted.
The downside is that clicking your "icon" doesn't focus the entry automatically, but it makes that action totally configurable.
I would like to add an icon to the header of my data grid as it is done in Thunderbird.
There is an icon that is above the vertical scrollbar, no matter the position of the horizontal scrollbar. This icon allows the setup of the columns.
In Delphi there a lot of different grid components, that allow customizations and adding icons to there cells / header cells. But I could not find any component that has an area above the vertical scrollbar that is fixed, which when clicked allows some action. I could even use the VirtualTreeView component to emulate the grid, if it turns out to be easier to customize that component.
I am looking for some guidance on what need to be done to get that functionality.
Thanks,
Thomas
VirtualTreeView in Listbox mode would be nice, because of it's speed, great documentation and ease use in MVC-like patterns. Delphi tempts to store data in the visual components themselves, which letter causes troubles. While VTW allwos the same, it also allows to acutally separate data from GUI, and i like it.
But i am surprised by your claim "which when clicked allows some action.".
Even most basic components allow it:
http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE2/en/Vcl.Grids.TCustomGrid.OnFixedCellClick
So could you make more detaiils, why you cannot use standard components ? with screenshot and editors, how u want it rendered, where you want to click and what kind of action should happen ?
We have developed a software. In this software we are show and hiding a few controls on various input screens depending on various situations.
When we hid a control what happens is that the space occupied by that control is left as it is and layout looks very bad at times esp. in screens that have larger numbers of controls. Our client does not like this and has asked us to do something about this.
My question:
Is there some way by which we can create Fluid Layouts so that when a control is hidden the rest of the controls automatically adjusts themselves to fill the empty space left by the control hidden and when the control is show they should automatically make way for the control and adjust themselves accordingly.
I know we can achieve this by coding but that will require a lot of code in each screen for adjusting the layout. I am looking something which will reduce coding in each screen as there are 80+ screens.
Please suggest some way which is less error pron and can get rid of unnecessary coding in each input screen.
I think your best option is to use a component that handles the layout of your vcl controls on your form in runtime (depending on the conditions that you define). I recommend you try the Devexpress ExpressLayout Control
you can find two great demo videos here
ExpressLayout Control - How to Customize Layout Views
ExpressLayout Control - Create and Customize a Simple Layout
(source: devexpress.com)
You can check these features
Auto-Management - Control groups and individual control elements are automatically managed by the Layout Control. You never worry about pixel-by-pixel positioning.
Form auto-sizing - The form can be automatically resized to fit its contents best.
Bye.
Now, I'm not sure how complex layout you have, but I guess you can use TFlowPanel and/or TGridPanel for this. Flowpanel has a nice handling of components that change visiblity. I'm not sure how well gridpanel handles the same...
What kind of controls are you dynamically hiding, and what do you mean with auto fill space?
I do not know if it is as this simple: place controls on panels, and use align alTop/alClient/alBottom. When you hide a panel, all other panels will move automatically up.
One problem though: if you want to show a panel again, the order of panels can sometimes be screwed up... Can be fixed by manually setting .Top property, or "hide" by setting .Height := 1;
What I would do with a complex layout is actually split it up into several tabs. This has two advantages. It simplifies the form layout, and allows you to show and hide whole tabs depending on choices made in other tabs.
Raize Components have a TRzFlowPanel UI component. Does exactly what you're after.
Use TRzFlowPanel to put an empty flow panel on a form. The major difference between a traditional panel and a flow panel is the way in which controls are placed. With a traditional panel, you place a control (such as a button) in a specific location. You can freely move that control to any location within the panel using the mouse. In a flow panel, each control is placed in a specific location, regardless of where you place it with the mouse. The automatic location is controlled by the FlowStyle property. For example, using the default FlowStyle property of LeftRightTopBottom, the first control you add to the flow panel snaps to the top left corner. The second control that you add snaps next to the first control, and so on.
In our primary application, we have a form that will allow us to do cross tab analysis of data in four different ways. Presently, each analysis appears in its own page of a PageControl on the screen. Now, upper management would like us to add in a historical aspect to the form, which in other areas we would use a PageControl to do, but nesting two of them seems like a bad idea to display the periods and analyses tabs stacked on top of each other. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how we could re-work this to look decent and work well? Thanks.
What about using the TTabset control along the bottom of the form to allow switching between the historical periods and the current data? I would also make sure that there was a visual difference in how the data is presented for historical vs current data. Like use an off grey cell background for historical data.
Use an small (horizontal) TTabSet with a vertical one.
See here (you can click on the picture to zoom). The TTabSet is shipped OOTB with Delphi. The vertical one can be written very easily if your requirements are low. If you want, I can share the code. But if you want a better vertical tab set then you can spend more time on writing or get one which is ready made from Torry or somewhere else.
HTH.
IMHO, you can use frames for each analysis result page, then you can use either PageControl or TabSet or any other visual control for loading and showing the appropriate frame.
Since frames are totally independent from the visual control you use to select proper period and analysis, you won't be restricted to tab-based controls; for example you can have a tabset for analysis selection, and a treeview for period selection.
Frames have some additional benefits here too:
First of all, their code is kept in
separate units and this will increase
code readability.
Second, you can design a base frame
and put all the controls and codes
which all these 4 analysis share into
that base frame, and in this way have
a better code reuse.
Third, you can either drop each frame
on your main form and make them load
just like before, or you can define a
container control (e.g a panel), and
based on user's selection load one of
the frames into the container control
dynamically, so reduce initial load
time of your application, and
probably reduce the overall system
resource consumption.