Reading Order

[Bwalker252]

Anyone with experience with this property? I seem unable to change it. I've
been trying to use it with a simple text box, using the property options in the
properties window and I've also tried setting it using event code. Neither
seems to have any effect.

Anybody who has used this, how have you used it?
Betsy

[Michael \(michka\) Kaplan [MS]]

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...Properties.asp

for more info. If you are not using Arabic or Hebrew (or some other RTL
lang) then you will not get much out of it....
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Microsoft Windows International Division

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Anyone with experience with this property? I seem unable to change it. I've been trying to use it with a simple text box, using the property options in the properties window and I've also tried setting it using event code. Neither seems to have any effect.

Anybody who has used this, how have you used it?
Betsy

[Bwalker252]

Michael suggested:

See

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...diLearnAboutRT
LProperties.asp

for more info. If you are not using Arabic or Hebrew (or some other RTL
lang) then you will not get much out of it....
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Thanks for this link, Michael. Unfortunately, it does not give me tips on
anything that I haven't already tried. Even the ctrl+right-shift. I have had
no success at all with the reading order property. It is completely
unresponsive. In a later post, I described code I wrote as a test in the
form's On Current event, setting the text box's property to equal "2", which
should have flipped the letters. It did not.

This is not crucial, but frustrating when things don't work as they are
desribed...

Betsy

[Bwalker252]

Michael-

Are you still there? What follows is a portion of what I posted previously (in
a different thread) that describes the things I've tried. Can you tell me
where I went wrong or something that I omitted?
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Reading Order property has three settings:

0=Context: based on the language identified for the application. (This is the
default setting.)
1=Left-to-Right
2=Right-to-left

I have been unable to trigger this property. Using a simple text box on a text
field. I've tried toggling it in the
property window and I've tried using the On Current event of the form itself to
set this property to 2. No difference in display at all. Here's the snippet I
wrote in the form's On Current event to try it:

If Me!fname = "Betty" Then
Me!txtlname.ReadingOrder = 2
Me!txtlname.Vertical = True
Else
Me!txtlname.ReadingOrder = 0
Me!txtlname.Vertical = False
End If

When running this, all of Betty's entries did switch to vertical orientation,
so I know my references and "if logic" are both okay. But the Reading order
did not change.

Further ideas?

Betsy