Change UIComponent from fixed width to fit content

I have a custom alert box I wrote. It has an optional second button. I use the alert box in various ways which may or may not need the second button.
Previously I was creating and adding the button dynamically, but because flash is so slow I have to preload the alert with two buttons.
So there are always two buttons in this alert view. So if I have an alert with both an action button and a cancel button, then I have an alert with just a cancel button I want to hide the action button. However if I set the action button to hidden it still throws off the alginment of the cancel button in my HGroup because it's still taking up space even though it's not there. If I set the width of the action button to 0 then I am using a fixed with and whenever I need to use it again I will have to manually calculate the width of the button!! Is there a way to set the width to 0 then set it like it never had a width at all?
Hope this makes since!
Thanks.

Here is a different approach. Set your actionButton.visible = false and actionButton.includeInLayout = false then you should be in good shape!
Cheers,
Dave

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Fixed width of SCN content

After last redesign of SCN all the content is cca 990 pixels wide. This was a fashionable approach of web in 90's. For web sites like forums and blogs I would expect flexible width - people working on large displays like 1920px wide can use full screen and people working with blog as right-hand help column can use it too. Some problems like text behind right edge would dissapear by flex width, I think.
Why fixed layout (I accept the fact it is more comfortable for dev and testing)?
Regards,
Pavol

Pavol;
I am referring today with combining quotes from an article that already was written around fixed width:
http://webdev.entheosweb.com/2008/07/16/fixed-width-vs-liquid-layouts/
Earlier today I tried to respond quickly, and did not refer to the article appropriately nor entirely. Most of the response below was a mix of that article; and comments from me in appropriate places with additional decisions we made as an SCN team.
As you correctly state there are two types of layout that you can choose from : http://webdev.entheosweb.com/2008/07/16/fixed-width-vs-liquid-layouts/
This article also discusses the fact that one is the fixed width layout and the other is the liquid/variable layout. The fixed width layout sets the width of the web page at a specific value, no matter how wide the vieweru2019s internet browser window is, whereas liquid & variable width layouts adjust their width depending on the width of the visitoru2019s browser window. The choice between these two layouts is not always an easy one. In our SCN case we chose for the fixed.
As they quote in the article : http://webdev.entheosweb.com/2008/07/16/fixed-width-vs-liquid-layouts/
For those who do not know much about this : Fixed width layouts mean that you have a predetermined width which you will design the rest of your web page around. The main advantage of this approach is that it gives you greater direction and control over the eventual organization of your web pages.
Which layout you eventually choose will greatly affect the final look and feel of your web site, not to mention the functionality of the site. The ease with which visitoru2019s can scan through your site for relevant information and identify the content that they wish to find is almost always largely dependant on your choice of layouts. We have a lot of content on our website in many places, and unfortunately for you and also from a maintenance perspective we wanted to opt in this release for fixed width.
I picked the the pros and cons of the fixed width from the article as they are widely known to most website designers.
*Fixed Width Layout*
Pros
Pages that you design look exactly the same when viewed using any internet browser or operating system.
Images and other non-textual objects will not overwhelm the textual content of the page, regardless of the size of the browser window or viewing monitor.
The scan length of your pages stays constant no matter how wide the vieweru2019s browser window is.
Cons
Viewers using smaller browser windows or monitors to view the site will probably have to scroll horizontally to see the entirety of the page. This tends to annoy online som eof our visitors. However we know most of our users use IE or Mozilla and have larger screens ( more than 30% has 1024x) from Surveys we do.
A large amount of whitespace is usually generated when viewers use large browser windows to view the site, resulting in wastage of otherwise useful space. Also, more vertical scrolling may be required than should be necessary.
Font size changes can adversely affect the overall layout of the page. Large increases in font size can cause the layout of your page to become distorted, making it messy and unappealing.
In short: We used to have both approaches, but in the new SCN design we choose to have the fixed width approach for now. We weighed both pros and cons
Scott Lawley of our SCN team compiled it for us and referred in an internal presentation around the pros for SCN for fixed width. here is a quick summary ( thanks Scott, have a nice vacation )
Our SAP Corporate styleguide calls for a fixed width layout (see e.g. sap.com)
We already implemented EcoHub with a fixed width layout. All our communities should try to have as much a unified presentation where possible
All of CSO's screen designs are made for a 1024 resolution. They do not work that well with higher resolutions (in our older SDN approach, viewed at higher resolutions it looked sometimes very lackluster, the lines of text became so long that readability is decreased)
On high resolutions the old SDN site became harder to navigate because you had a lot of screen real estate to cover if you wanted to move the mouse from right to left
Using a fluid layout for us meant that we have to continue using table-based layouts which did not entirely fit with the image of the modern web 2.0 platform we wanted to convey.
Most news blogs and major news sites (like e.g. nytimes.com) use a fixed width layout. According to this survey http://tinyurl.com/65yjcv
Flash content does not easily scale. New page layout may need to be considered to better support flash in th enear future for us.
92% of the top 50 news blogs use a fixed layout.
And last but not least there were also some more philosophical and functional differences that we weighed of from each other : news vs. community vs. product
What we will do in the next few releases is allow the collapsable left hand navigation that then will help the vertical scrolling challenge you might infrequently have,
Hopefully this answers your question
Edited by: Marco ten Vaanholt on Dec 17, 2008 7:59 AM
Edited by: Marco ten Vaanholt on Dec 17, 2008 8:02 AM

How can I convert my web page from a fixed width layout to a fluid grid layout?

I'm taking a web design class (I'm using Dreamweaver CS6, btw) wherein the professor started us out building our websites in a fixed width layout but now I want to change my site into a fluid grid layout. My "site" so far is just one long page, and I've already designed it with fluid grid adjustments in mind (most things are centered in the layout) so it shouldn't need excessive tweaking.
Is there a way to duplicate the site folder that holds my first page, re-open a new document in fluid, then copy the code in and tweak the width parameters for the different layouts?
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Herbert2001 wrote:
A bit off-topic, but Osgood: have you ever used SASS or LESS? When you are building your own grid systems it can save you a tremendous amount of time, and it's a lot of fun.
Take the following simple example - it generates all the 23 css classes automatically for a 12 grid system. And simply changing one variable allows you to create and calculate any number of columns!
//variables
$desktop: 1025px;
$large-columns: 12;
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No, not explored it yet, and may never....I don't know. I don't really make much money out of web design. It's becoming more and more difficult to find the desire to learn new techniques when the opportunities aren't really there to put them into practice on as regular basis as I would like. I've got a very good handle on css, php, html, jQuery - I'm not sure I want to add another layer at the moment, given I'm never quite sure how long I will continue to 'bang my head against the wall' . I'm getting to the stage where I keep asking myself do I really need the problems associated with learning new stuff to the point of being comfortable with it if the financial rewards at the end don't equate to the efforts of learning it.
I don't really enjoy web development if truth is known. I come from a Graphic Design background which I much prefer but somehow got side tracked and pushed in this direction and there's no way back now, lol. Whilst I concede Web Development is much more exciting its also 100 times more complex/difficult and the skills needed are considerably more.
Your example looks interesting and I should think I could pick it up reasonably easily given I work with php which uses variables on a similar basis.

Switching from delimited to fixed width and had to retype 115 column names

Hi we run 2012 enterprise. I just changed a delimited flat file over to fixed width and had to retype all 115 column names. Is there a way to preserve at least some of what ssis already knows (eg col names) in the flat file connection when
this kind of changeover is occuring?

Thx Mike. I appreciate your help so dont take this the wrong way.
Lets be honest. This kind of behavior and some of the others I've posted recently when it comes to switching in and amongst flat file formats (fixed,unicode,unnecessary data type conversion etc etc) in ssis cannot possibly be by "design".
You might think I'm arrogant but hear me out.  As a graduate from one of the better engineering schools in the US and having earned a BSCS from that school, my thinking is that even a first year college student would design this little part of
ssis in a more flexible fashion. And the sad part is that legacy mainframe technologies from way way back baked this kind of flexibility into their products without add ins.  SSIS is purportedly .net technology and as such should follow the
most fundamental rules of OO which include flexibility and reusability.
We should be more careful about the term "by design". I believe this is actually a limitation which I'm sure would have been dealt with had there been more time, money and experience invested. One of my other posts cites a recommendation (from
ssis) that displays along with one of these flat file errors and has something to do with dt_ntext. But the recommendation actually doesnt work. So are we going to say that a recommendation that doesnt work is also by design? I dont think
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Importing fixed width text from a .txt file

I am really struggling to do in Numbers '09 something which I can do easily in Excel.
I have a txt file containing plain text in fixed-width columns which I would like to import into numbers.
I just cannot find a way to do it.
I have tried using the Insert/choose menu item - but it won't take .txt files.
I have tried to copy/paste the data, but it get's pasted into a single column.
The data consists of many lines like this:
Part Value Device Package Library Sheet
A-IN JST-2.0-4 JST-2.0-4 JST-20M KMILLAR 1
A-IN JST-2.5-4 JST-2.5-4 JST-25M KMILLAR 1
A-IN JST-2.8-4 JST-2.8-4 JST-28M KMILLAR 1
(and so on....)
(Each column is an exact number of characters wide, but these forums make that hard to see due to the variable spaced fonts).
How can I import this data into numbers?
(Sorry, but I cannot get the data in any other format, such as CSV, the application which exports it only support fixed width colums with spaces for padding).
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Here is a script treating the case of fixed widths values.
--[SCRIPT fixedwidth_values_toTSV.scpt]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script : fixedwidth_values_toTSV.scpt
déplacer le fichier ainsi créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Numbers et peut-être même le dossier Applications.
aller au menu Scripts , choisir Numbers puis choisir fixedwidth_values_toTSV
Choisir un fichier texte.
Le script détermine la largeur des différentes colonnes puis remplace les groupes séparateurs par des caractères TAB.
Le résultat est passé dans le presse-paiers et est enregistré à la place du contenu initial.
Vous pouvez alors
(1) coller dans le document de votre choix
(2) ouvrir le fichier texte modifié dans Numbers qui accepte sans broncher les ficiers .txt.
Utilisation alternative : enregistrer le script en tant que Progiciel (Application sous 10.6.x)
Glisser-déposer l'icône d'un fichier texte sur celle de l'application lancera le traitement voulu.
--=====
L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
Ouvrez l'Utilitaire AppleScript situé dans le dossier Applications/AppleScript.
Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
Sous 10.6.x,
aller dans le panneau "Général" du dialogue Préférences de l'Éditeur Applescript
puis cocher la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre des menus".
--=====
Save the script as a Script: fixedwidth_values_toTSV.scpt
Move the newly created file into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Numbers:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Numbers and even the folder Applications by yourself.
go to the Scripts Menu, choose Numbers, then choose "fixedwidth_values_toTSV"
Choose a text file.
The script scan the file's contents to extract the width of every column then it replace the separator groups by TAB characters.
The result is passed to the clipboard and is written in the original file.
So you may :
(1) paste in the document of your choice
(2) open the modified text file with Numbers which is fair enough to do that.
An alternate track is to save the script as an Application Package (Application under 10.6.x)
Drag and drop the icon of a text file on the application's one will do the job.
--=====
The Finder's Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
Under 10.6.x,
go to the General panel of AppleScript Editor’s Preferences dialog box
and check the “Show Script menu in menu bar” option.
--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2010/08/19
--=====
on run
set un_fichier to choose file with prompt "Choose e text file…" of type {"public.plain-text"} without invisibles
my commun(un_fichier)
end run
--=====
on open (sel)
set un_fichier to item 1 of sel
tell application "System Events" to set type_ID to type identifier of disk item ("" & un_fichier)
if type_ID is "public.plain-text" then my commun(un_fichier as alias)
error "The file “" & un_fichier & "” isn’t a text file !"
end open
--=====
on commun(le_fichier)
set le_contenu to read le_fichier
set le_contenu to "azer ertyuio wxcv dfghj
qszaed dc fghj mlkjhgf nbvcxw
aqwzsx edcrfv tg byhn aaaaaaa "
set listedelistes to {}
set plusgrandelongueur to 0
set pluspetitelongueur to 999999
set listelignesbrutes to paragraphs of le_contenu
repeat with refd_uneligne in listelignesbrutes
set maybe to contents of refd_uneligne
set maybe2 to count of maybe
if maybe2 > plusgrandelongueur then set plusgrandelongueur to maybe2
if maybe2 < pluspetitelongueur then set pluspetitelongueur to maybe2
copy my decoupe(maybe, space) to end of listedelistes
end repeat
set differencedelongueur to plusgrandelongueur - pluspetitelongueur
set des_espaces to space
repeat differencedelongueur times
set des_espaces to des_espaces & space
end repeat
set largeur1 to 0
repeat with refd_uneligne in listedelistes
set maybe to length of first item of refd_uneligne
if maybe > largeur1 then set largeur1 to maybe
end repeat
set liste_finale to {}
repeat with refd_uneligne in listelignesbrutes
set maybe to contents of refd_uneligne
set maybe2 to text 1 thru largeur1 of maybe
repeat while maybe2 ends with space
set maybe2 to text 1 thru -2 of maybe2
end repeat
copy maybe2 to end of liste_finale
copy text (largeur1 + 2) thru plusgrandelongueur of (maybe & des_espaces) to contents of refd_uneligne
end repeat
Enter the bigger loop *)
set cest_Lafin to false
repeat
Deprieve the stored rows of the treated column's items *)
set flag to 0
repeat
set flag to flag + 1
set flag2 to 0
repeat with refd_uneligne in listelignesbrutes
if "" & character flag of contents of refd_uneligne is space then set flag2 to flag2 + 1
end repeat
if flag2 < (count of listelignesbrutes) then exit repeat
end repeat
repeat with refd_uneligne in listelignesbrutes
copy text flag thru -1 of contents of refd_uneligne to contents of refd_uneligne
end repeat
Prepare the extraction of next column *)
repeat with refd_uneligne in listelignesbrutes
copy my decoupe(contents of refd_uneligne, space) to end of listedelistes
end repeat
Extract the width of the column to treat *)
set largeur1 to 0
repeat with refd_uneligne in listedelistes
set maybe to length of first item of refd_uneligne
if maybe > largeur1 then set largeur1 to maybe
end repeat
Extract the column's values *)
repeat with i from 1 to count of listelignesbrutes
set maybe to contents of item i of listelignesbrutes
set maybe2 to text 1 thru largeur1 of maybe
repeat while maybe2 ends with space
set maybe2 to text 1 thru -2 of maybe2
end repeat
copy (contents of item i of liste_finale) & tab & maybe2 to item i of liste_finale
try
copy text (largeur1 + 2) thru -1 of maybe to item i of listelignesbrutes
on error
set cest_Lafin to true
end try
end repeat -- i
if cest_Lafin then exit repeat
end repeat -- bigger loop
set le_contenu to my recolle(liste_finale, return)
set the clipboard to le_contenu
set eof of le_fichier to 0
write le_contenu to le_fichier
end commun
--=====
on decoupe(t, d)
local oTIDs, l
set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
return l
end decoupe
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local oTIDs, t
set oTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oTIDs
return t
end recolle
--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) vendredi 20 août 2010 12:44:33

Change background colour of full screen slideshow when set to fit content proportionally

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Can you select the slideshow widget that you have added and check the fill color in control panel.
Please refer to the following screenshot :
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This may be fairly simple for someone out there but I am trying to write a simple program that can go through a "fixed width" flat txt file and parse it to be comma dilmeted.
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   import java.io.*;
   import org.w3c.dom.Document;
   import org.w3c.dom.*;
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   import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder;
   import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
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                 doc.getDocumentElement().getNodeName());
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            int totalFields = listOfFields.getLength();
            System.out.println("Total no of fields : " + totalFields);
            String[] fldNameArray = new String[totalFields];
            String[] fldTypeArray = new String[totalFields];
            String[] fldSizeArray = new String[totalFields];
            for(int s=0; s<listOfFields.getLength() ; s++){
               Node firstFieldNode = listOfFields.item(s);
               if(firstFieldNode.getNodeType() == Node.ELEMENT_NODE){
                  Element firstFieldElement = (Element)firstFieldNode;
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                  Element firstFieldNMElement = (Element)firstFieldNMList.item(0);
                  NodeList textFNList = firstFieldNMElement.getChildNodes();
                  //System.out.println("Field Name : " +
                           //((Node)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
                  //loads values into an array
                  //fldNameArray[s] = ((Node)textFNList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                  NodeList typeList = firstFieldElement.getElementsByTagName("TYPE");
                  Element typeElement = (Element)typeList.item(0);
                  NodeList textTypList = typeElement.getChildNodes();
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                           //((Node)textTypList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
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                  //fldTypeArray[s] = ((Node)textTypList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim();
                  NodeList sizeList = firstFieldElement.getElementsByTagName("SIZE");
                  Element sizeElement = (Element)sizeList.item(0);
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                  //System.out.println("Field Size : " +
                           //((Node)textSizeList.item(0)).getNodeValue().trim());
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               }//end of if clause
            }//end of for loop with s var
            //setFldNameArray(fldNameArray);
            //setFldTypeArray(fldTypeArray);
            setFldSizeArray(fldSizeArray);
             catch (SAXParseException err) {
               System.out.println ("** Parsing error" + ", line "
                  + err.getLineNumber () + ", uri " + err.getSystemId ());
               System.out.println(" " + err.getMessage ());
             catch (SAXException e) {
               Exception x = e.getException ();
               ((x == null) ? e : x).printStackTrace ();
             catch (Throwable t) {
               t.printStackTrace ();
      }//end go();
       public void setFldNameArray(String[] s){
         fieldNameArray = s;
      }//end setFldNameArray
       public void setFldTypeArray(String[] s){
         fieldTypeArray = s;
      }//end setFldTypeArray
       public void setFldSizeArray(String[] s){
         fieldSizeArray = s;
      }//end setFldSizeArray
       public String[] getFldNameArray(){
         return fieldNameArray;
      }//end setFldNameArray
       public String[] getFldTypeArray(){
         return fieldTypeArray;
      }//end setFldTypeArray
       public String[] getFldSizeArray(){
         return fieldSizeArray;
      }//end setFldSizeArray
       public int getNumLines(){
         int countLines = 0;
         try {
                //File must be in same director and be the name of the string below
            BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("files/FLAT.txt"));
            String str;
            while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
               countLines++;
            in.close();
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         return countLines;
      }//end of getNumLines
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         int c = getNumLines();
         int i = 0;
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               lineProcessed[i] = parseThatLine(str);
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       public void writeThatFile(String[] s){
         try {
            BufferedWriter out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("files/outfilename.txt"));
            for(int i = 0; i < s.length -1; i++){
               out.write(s);
}//end for loop
out.close();
catch (IOException e) {}
}//end writeThatFile
public String parseThatLine(String s){
int start = 0;
int end = 0;
String parsedLine = "";
int numChars = getFldSizeArray().length;
//Print number of lines for testing
//System.out.println(numChars);
String[] oArray = getFldSizeArray();
//String chars = oArray[0];
//System.out.println(chars.length());
//oArray
for(int i = 0; i < numChars -1; i++ ){
if(i == 0){
start = 0;
end = end + Integer.parseInt(oArray[i])-1;
else
start = end;
end = end + Integer.parseInt(oArray[i]);
parsedLine = parsedLine + s.substring(start, end) + "~";
}//end for loop
return parsedLine;
}//End of parseThatLine
I have tried to illeminate as many arrays as I can thinking that was chewing up the memory but to no avail.
Any thoughts or ideas?
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SaipanMan2005

You should not keep a String array of all the lines of the file read.
Instead for each line read, parse it, then write the parsed line in the other file:      public void loadFixedWidthFile() {
         BufferedReader in = null;
         BufferedWriter out = null;
         try {
            //File must be in same director and be the name of the string below
            in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("files/FLAT.txt"));
            out = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("files/outfilename.txt"));
            String str;
            while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
               //System.out.println(str.length());
               str = parseThatLine(str);
               //write out the parsed str to another file
               out.write(str);
         catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace(); // At least print the exception - never swallow an exception
         finally { // Use a finally block to be sure of closing the files even when exception occurs
            try { in.close(); }
            catch (Exception e) {}
            try { out.close(); }
            catch (Exception e) {}
      }//end loadFixedWidthFile()Regards

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I try to make the simplest solution for my custom to modify current Word template without hard code anything except field name.
As you can see above image, normally text field in Word is not fixed width control. So, it may affect document layout. Moreover, I want to add dotted line below all text fields in document template.
Is there any possible solution that end-user can do in normal Microsoft Word 2010 application?
PS. I will fill all controls with data from Microsoft Access.

In PDF file, I can easily create fix-size absolute position field inside document template like the following document. In Microsoft Word, I cannot fix even the size of plain text field.
PS. Nobody use table with fixed cell size as normal form (hard copy). I think Microsoft Word is really bad choice for creating any document template by end-user.
Criticizing Word for not doing the same as some other application is hardly relevant. Have you tried word-processing with Adobe Acrobat?
As for your PS, Word tables are ideal for the kind of thing you describe. Your assertion that 'nobody' does so is plain ignorance - it is a common practice. In my previous employment,
many forms were created using Word tables. Before complaining Word is a 'really bad choice', you should learn how to use it.
Cheers
Paul Edstein
[MS MVP - Word]

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Hi All,
I need to fix ALV column width independent of content. If I set the width of column as 10 and when the content is 20 characters long, the column expands to 20. I want the width of column to be fixed irrespective of content. I tried all properties available for ALV column and table but couldn't figure it out. We are on ECC 6.0 ENHP4. Any ideas how to achieve this.
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lo_model->if_salv_wd_table_settings~set_fixed_table_layout( abap_true )
lt_alv_column_table = lo_alv_model->if_salv_wd_column_settings~get_columns( ).
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Hi All. I have a text file with fixed width column. i want to change it to file with delimeter. is it possible ??
col1      col2         col3
Name1 Name2     Name3
NameA NameB     NameC
change to
Name1,Name2,Name3
NameA,NameB,NameC

Hello,
the Windows Powershell forum will be here
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/home?forum=winserverpowershell
Best regards
Meinolf Weber
MVP, MCP, MCTS
Microsoft MVP - Directory Services
My Blog: http://blogs.msmvps.com/MWeber
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Is there a way to change fixed width Flat file connection manager to delimited without losing all the column names ?

Unfortunately not as it is a quite dramatic change causing the metadata being refreshed. I would try to open though the package file in a text editor and find them before doing the change, then after you made the change to the FF connector try to reconstitute
/ replace the autimatically generated columns with the old names.
Arthur
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