Problem with Dialogs and Frames Tutorial

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Re: Problem with Dialogs and Frames Tutorial

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aliasmask wrote:
wolph42 wrote:How do you do that in Excel?
I reduce the columns to about 3 so I have a bunch of tiny squares and then I use the merge cell tool to create my blocked areas. I figure out the border designs and positioning of my data and then I manually try to recreate it with html since the MS conversion to HTML really sucks.
Yeah, that's basically what I did. I thought of it as a "sketch" of sorts. I made it in Excel, then tried to replicate it in BlueGriffon and prettied it a little, then copied the source code from BlueGriffon into a MapTool macro. I suppose I could have skipped the Excel step, but I needed something to give me direction when working in BlueGriffon. Here's what I mean:
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Re: Problem with Dialogs and Frames Tutorial

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Having blue Griffon build the basic table structure instead of doing it manually could save me some time.

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