Columns - Adjusting
Once you get your columns the way you want them, they stay that way for the rest of your working session — through re-pairing, undo, and switching between sections.
Adjusting Column Width
Many of the SwissSys dialogs, such as those for standings, pair charts, and so on, are arranged in columns. You can adjust the width of these columns by placing the mouse cursor at the top of a column boundary, then clicking and dragging the boundary left or right. You might do this, for instance, to improve the appearance of the final printout, or to save screen space.
Double-click a column boundary instead of dragging it and SwissSys fits that column to its widest entry. In the pair chart, the matching White/Black column is fitted at the same time so the two sides stay aligned. Double-clicking a row boundary re-fits the row height to your current fonts.
How Long Your Adjustments Last
Column widths and row heights in the chart windows — pair chart, wall chart, standings, alphabetical pairings, and All Rounds Results Entry — are part of your working session, not part of the tournament file:
- They are kept when the chart is rebuilt: undo and re-pair, entering results, changing sort or display options, and switching between sections (each section keeps its own widths).
- They are re-measured when you change fonts, or when you move the window to a display with different scaling — your adjustment is applied on top of the new measurement, so the chart stays readable at the new size.
- They are not saved with the tournament. Close and reopen the event and the columns return to the default widths measured from your current fonts and display.
Because widths are stored as a proportion of the measured default rather than as a fixed pixel count, a column you widened stays proportionally wider after a font change or a move to a higher-resolution display, instead of becoming too narrow or overflowing the window.
Column Types
Some of the charts have column types. Changing the width of one column automatically changes the width of all the columns on the screen with similar data in them.
An example of this is the round and tiebreak columns of the standings, which SwissSys keeps at the same width.
Font Changes
When you change fonts in any of these dialogs the column width and height is automatically adjusted proportionately.
You can quickly restore the default column widths and font settings by clicking the “Set fonts” button from most of the dialogs. Choose “Defaults” from the font modification dialog that appears. Some columns can be removed completely just by unchecking the appropriate field in the Formatting Options dialog.
Another shortcut for this in some situations is to do a right click on a selected column. If “Collapse column” is listed as a right click menu option, then you can remove the column by selecting that option. Click here if you are copying to the clipboard and having trouble with jagged columns.