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Alignment in listboxes.. 1
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Brezhnev (Programmer):
Populating listbox with 7 columns. and would like to align some of them to the left and some to the right. can’t find the appropriate property ..what am I blind ?
No, you are not blind: there ain't no such thing as Alignment property in regular VFP ListBox control.
You may want to consider either using Grid control instead, or finding some custom ListBox control that does have this property. (I, personally, would rather go with Grid.)
Note also that ListBox has the limit: no more than 64000 line items. Grid doesn't have this limitation.
I hope this would help.
Regards,
Ilya
P.S. Off the record: any relation to late Leonid Brezhnev?
Populating listbox with 7 columns. and would like to align some of them to the left and some to the right. can’t find the appropriate property ..what am I blind ?
No, you are not blind: there ain't no such thing as Alignment property in regular VFP ListBox control.
You may want to consider either using Grid control instead, or finding some custom ListBox control that does have this property. (I, personally, would rather go with Grid.)
Note also that ListBox has the limit: no more than 64000 line items. Grid doesn't have this limitation.
I hope this would help.
Regards,
Ilya
P.S. Off the record: any relation to late Leonid Brezhnev?
Mike Lewis
Programmer
Hi Brezhnev,
All you've got to do is to set the ColumnWidths property.
Say the listbox is 300 pixels wide. You might set the Columnwidths to "50,100,20,30,50,25,25" for example. That way, the columns will line up nicely.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
All you've got to do is to set the ColumnWidths property.
Say the listbox is 300 pixels wide. You might set the Columnwidths to "50,100,20,30,50,25,25" for example. That way, the columns will line up nicely.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
Hi,
1. MikeLewis is correct. If you have similar data in the list box, by adjusting its width, you can make a nice presentation.
2. ANother way.. is to make the Grid look like a listbox.
Here is how,..
WITH myGrid
.DeleteMark = .f.
.GridLines = 0
.HeaderHeight = 0
.RecordMark = .f.
ENDWITH
Now you have much better way to handle the presentation also.
ramani
(Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com
1. MikeLewis is correct. If you have similar data in the list box, by adjusting its width, you can make a nice presentation.
2. ANother way.. is to make the Grid look like a listbox.
Here is how,..
WITH myGrid
.DeleteMark = .f.
.GridLines = 0
.HeaderHeight = 0
.RecordMark = .f.
ENDWITH
Now you have much better way to handle the presentation also.
ramani (Subramanian.G),FoxAcc, ramani_g@yahoo.com
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Mike Lewis
Programmer
Brezhnev,
wouldn’t do a thing for me ... non-proportional fonts (!)
Makes no difference. My solution will work with all fonts. Give it a quick try. It will take less than 30 seconds.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
wouldn’t do a thing for me ... non-proportional fonts (!)
Makes no difference. My solution will work with all fonts. Give it a quick try. It will take less than 30 seconds.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
Brezhnev,
As you say, non-proportional font is a solution for using Listbox with alignment. If you insist to use Listbox, I think this could be the only way.
Use Courier New font
Format all list items (right alignment) by using transform or str command. I think you could have what you expected. of course, columnwidths is required.
As you say, non-proportional font is a solution for using Listbox with alignment. If you insist to use Listbox, I think this could be the only way.
Use Courier New font
Format all list items (right alignment) by using transform or str command. I think you could have what you expected. of course, columnwidths is required.
Mike Lewis
Programmer
cslawtom,
Sorry to labour this point, but my solution really does work with proportional fonts. I've been doing it for years.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
Sorry to labour this point, but my solution really does work with proportional fonts. I've been doing it for years.
Mike
Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland
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