Text Area

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Description

The TextAreaWdg is a simple text widget which is used for editing full-text. The widget supports using the ENTER key for adding new lines (the ENTER key is often not supported on text entry widgets where CTRL+ENTER is used.) This widget can also be configured to display a larger canvas to work on.

Info

Name TextAreaWdg

Class

pyasm.widget.TextAreaWdg

TACTIC Version Support

2.5.0

Required database columns

requires a database column for storing the text data.

Implementation

The TextAreaWdg is used in Edit scenarios where full text input is required. There is control for the columns (characters across) and rows (characters down).

Options

cols

The number of character columns in the TextArea

rows

The number of character rows in the TextArea

Advanced

The following example is a default implementation. The default number of cols is 50 and the default number of rows is 3.

<element name="subject">
  <display class="TextAreaWdg"/>
</element>

The following example creates a large text area which could be used for writing large amounts of full-text.

<element name="summary">
  <display class="TextAreaWdg">
    <cols>100</cols>
    <rows>30</rows>
  </display>
</element>