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Here’s the complete video feed of last Tuesday’s meeting. Thanks to Kevin Ayers for presenting, for the equipment, AND for post-processing of the video! This goes a long way toward what we’d like to shoot for in future recordings.
Give it some time to load, it’s over an hour in length.
All in all, a lively discussion!
February’s meeting ought to be a recap of PauseOnError, since a few of us are heading up there, and ought to have some interesting field reports to share.
A common problem I run into is not being able to see all the information I need to in list view. Consider the list view shown below, taking note of the Full Name field:
As you can see, longer content – such as very long names – don’t fit within the allotted space. Ordinarily you could just set anchors to have the field grow to the right, but in this particular use case, we already have one anchored field – Notes – set to grow rightward.
In this type of situation, I can call on Conditional Formatting to save the day. I actually got the inspiration for this one by using the calculator on my iPod Touch. Type a number and it appears in the calculator, pretty large. If you keep typing digits, then number gets smaller to fit in the area of the display. Brilliant! Continue reading ‘Show Your Stuff: Using Conditional Formatting to fit long content into fixed width fields’
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