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Purpose |
With
the Compress
command you can get rid of empty lines within a frame or within an entire
screen. Lines from below will be moved upwards to fill the empty ones, thus
reducing the area and perimeter of the frame. This is particularly useful
when you have deleted numerous fields in a screen and you would like to
have a compact layout without necessitating a lot of rearranging and fiddling
about.
The frame is compressed vertically,
not horizontally; i.e. there is a reduction in the number of lines but not
in the number of columns.
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Example |
Compress
G[further
data] |
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Format
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Compress
G[frame]
Empty lines (rows) within the
given frame will be deleted, the frame compacted and its size thereby reduced.
Compress
Empty lines (rows) within the
given screen will be deleted and the entire screen compacted.
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Tips
& Tricks |
- Delete the superfluous
fields in your script before compressing the screen.
- In doing so you
may have to use the
"-triple"
option in order to make sure you also delete the text fields behind
input fields; otherwise the lines won't be able to be compressed.
- You can shift frames or
fields before or after compressing. Usually it makes sense to do so
before compressing in order to have a better overview of the general
effect and avoid clutter.
- "Blank line" applies only
to the area within a frame if you are compressing a frame, otherwise
it applies to the entire area. It therefore sometimes makes sense to
compress individual frames before proceeding to compress the entire
screen.
- If you add your own elements
(texts, pushbuttons, inputfields...), please remember to do it before
compressing, otherwise there will be no available space left to do so
afterwards.
- You may find that your
own elements are also shifted and your frames reduced in the compressing
process.
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Components |
GuiXT |