Page display properties for RichTextEdit controls allow you to manage the size and orientation of documents inside the controls. These display properties are separate from the page properties that can be set at runtime for printing the contents of RichTextEdit controls. They are also separate from the height and width properties of the controls themselves.
The following table lists and describes the new display properties. These properties are implemented for standard PowerBuilder targets and for Windows Forms targets. They are not implemented for Web Forms targets:
Changing current units
By default, the current units are set to 1/1000 of
an inch, so to display a paper height of 11 inches, you must set
the PaperHeight value to 11000. If you enable the PopMenu property
of the RichTextEdit control, you allow the application user to bring
up the Rich Text Object dialog box and change the current units to
1/1000 of a centimeter. If the user switches the unit value
to centimeters, the values for PaperHeight and PaperWidth are multiplied
by 2.54.
By default, the values you set for PaperHeight and PaperWidth
are used for printing as well as for screen display. When you set
either or both of these screen display values, the default value
for the Size drop-down list on the Print Specifications page of
the Rich Text Object dialog box changes to Customized.
Similarly, the default value for page orientation on the Print
Specifications page changes when you assign a value to the PaperOrientation
property. Application users can modify the print specifications
from the Rich Text Object dialog box at runtime, but only if you
set the PopMenu property of the rich text object to true.
