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Re: How to create Combobox accepting more chars than visible

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From: Thomas Bretz-Rieck
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 00:00
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Romain Strieff [TeamB] schrieb in Nachricht ...
>In article <36f3780a.2914188@forums.borland.com>, Gary White [dBVIPS]
>politely paraphrased ...
>>
>> That sounds like the default behavior.  What is it doing?
>>
>It is using proportional fonts I guess. ;-)
>--
>Romain Strieff [dBVIPS]

yes, it is using a proportional font.
but is using a non-proportional font and sizing the combo 35 chars wide the
only way to solve my problem. I hope not! Cause what shall I do if I have a
database field that is 240 chars wide and I need a combo.
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From: "Thomas Bretz-Rieck" <bretz@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: How to create Combobox accepting more chars than visible
Date: 1999/03/19
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