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  • Pascal
    #1

    vbtab don't work...


    hello

    In fact the purpose of the code is to print some strings that i don't know
    the length before. But i want them to appears in two or three columns. So i
    thought that i could with the code (see the link in previous post) using
    vbtab. But vbtab has no effect to the string !!!!
    Hope this is clearer...
    thanks for your help
    pascal


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    • rowe_newsgroups
      #2
      Re: vbtab don't work...

      On Apr 11, 8:59 am, "Pascal" <scalpano...@wa nadoo.rfwrote:
      hello
      >
      In fact the purpose of the code is to print some strings that i don't know
      the length before. But i want them to appears in two or three columns. So i
      thought that i could with the code (see the link in previous post) using
      vbtab. But vbtab has no effect to the string !!!!
      Hope this is clearer...
      thanks for your help
      pascal
      >
      http://www.scalpa.info
      You should be able to use ControlChars.Ta b instead.

      Thanks,

      Seth Rowe

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        • Andrew Morton
          #3
          Re: vbtab don't work...

          Pascal wrote:
          In fact the purpose of the code is to print some strings that i don't
          know the length before. But i want them to appears in two or three
          columns. So i thought that i could with the code (see the link in
          previous post) using vbtab. But vbtab has no effect to the string !!!!
          Hope this is clearer...
          thanks for your help
          Whatever entity you are using to display the strings does not "know" what
          you mean by putting tabs in.

          The simplest way would to get columns be to use a fixed-width font like
          Courier and pad strings to the desired position with PadLeft and/or PadRight
          as appropriate.

          Andrew


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            • Shane
              #4
              Re: vbtab don't work...

              As Andrew said, many (most) of the standard controls don't know how to
              display a tab. I believe that the textbox shows a small rectangle for
              the character.

              The RichTextBox does support the tab, but it is also a bit dangerous:
              If you have a line with short text and a tab, and another line with
              fairly long text and a tab, your columns may not line up correctly.
              You could handle the issue by forcing a fixed width font, again as
              Andrew suggested; use the ".Padright" method on your strings to force
              additional spaces as needed.

              I don't know what your aplication is doing, but perhaps a listview in
              detail mode may be a better choice. You can set up column sizes
              independent of the text size.

              Shane

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                • Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]
                  #5
                  Re: vbtab don't work...

                  "rowe_newsgroup s" <rowe_email@yah oo.comschrieb:
                  >In fact the purpose of the code is to print some strings that i don't
                  >know
                  >the length before. But i want them to appears in two or three columns. So
                  >i
                  >thought that i could with the code (see the link in previous post) using
                  >vbtab. But vbtab has no effect to the string !!!!
                  >Hope this is clearer...
                  >thanks for your help
                  >pascal
                  >>
                  >http://www.scalpa.info
                  >
                  You should be able to use ControlChars.Ta b instead.
                  A tab is a tab is a tab, irregardless of whether you use 'vbTab',
                  'ControlChars.T ab', or 'ChrW(9)'.

                  --
                  M S Herfried K. Wagner
                  M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
                  V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>

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