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I agree totally (except the part about reading in 2
directions). Using the number of characters won't work if the list is
using a font that is proportional but TJ knows how this can be done.
I can't count the number of times I've had to adjust the $%#* column
widths.
d
Friday, August 5, 2005, 3:58:10 PM, you wrote:
m>
When I maximize the Exploration, I want all of the columns to
be
visible
It's long been one of my pet peeves in AB. Why we
cannot set,
precisely and via code, the width of the columns, I don't know
(sorry
for the Yoda syntax). Setting an appropriately wide (or
narrow)
column header helps. But it is not the answer, and cannot even
be
done with the default columns. I have intraday data now,
and
Date/Time comes up way too narrow to show the time stamp, which
I
consider important. In fact, I cannot even see the year, getting
this
kind of output: Date/... (as a column header) then 8/5/200...
(as
output). This is a small thing that is a big thing, to me.
It's way
short of the complete data I want to see.
TJ, can we get
some improvement in this aspect of the interface
sometime soon? The
output to a column consists of characters, be
they part of an array or part
of a string. Yes? Can we not have an
option to control the
width in number of characters of any column we
add? If there is a reason
that this is impossible, I'm sure willing
to accept that. But it is a
real peeve, as I say. And yes, I know
the little tricks like "Scan"
(with no buy or sell arguments), and
then run the exploration, which resets
the column widths. But it is
not enough, and a pain besides.
Certainly we should be able to
control this unless there is some built-in
reason we cannot. Yes?
Also, AddTextColumn [to use fullname() in
the output] justifies
right. Excellent for math, sometimes; horrible for
text, IMO, unless
you are reading in Japanese. But even that would be
top to bottom,
then right to
left.
^_^
Best,
Yuki
Try to figure out us
Japanese. Our newspapers are printed top to
bottom and right to left
(the front page would be a European back
page). But our ONLINE newspapers
are displayed left to right and top
to bottom, as if the text was
European. Maybe it's better for the
brain, learning to read in
different
directions.
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