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[esmel912]

I am trying to write a program that displays the nine different units of measurement for ex: inch,yard,meter,fathom,rod,furlong,kilometer and mile. How do i make my list box have the results come out spaced (aligned) correctly. I've tried it and my results come out aligned diffently.

for ex:

fruit vegetables meat
apple carrot pork
watermelon potato chicken

please help

Esmeralda Lua

 

[JohnH]

try vbTab for delimiter

 

[Don Delegate]

You also can draw the items yourself:
1) Set DrawMode property to OwnerDrawFixed
2) Implement a DrawItem event handler
For an example see this post.

 

[JohnH]

Don Delegate, how is that supposed to solve the alignment problem for the listbox in question?

esmel912, vbTab does work for this alignment in listbox, but I would rather have used a listview in detail mode for displaying this kind of data.

 

[Don Delegate]

If you draw the items yourself, you show and/or align what you want, like you want..
The items can be objects or boxed structures, with properties (or even methods) like Yard, Meter, Furlong, WhatEver, ...

 

[JohnH]

well, ok, but that sounds like a really lot of measuring of all involved datafields, every field of every item has to be measured, then all "columns" aligned before anything can be drawn..
I can't see that this awesome-lot-of-work method will accomplish anything at all compared to just putting a tab in between the fields of each item.

 

[Don Delegate]

I can't see that this awesome-lot-of-work method will accomplish anything at all compared to just putting a tab in between the fields of each item.

No offense, but I can.
And it's really not an awesome-lot-of-work method, as you seem to think.
But hey, if someone else is happy with the tab method, no problemo! *



* Yes, I know it's actually: no problema

 

[JohnH]

No offense, but I can.

I am not being quarrelsome here, but I think your suggestion is misleading and your last post childish secretive.
Please tell me, my brain activity is obviously down today and I can't find any arguments for using your sketched method. So what is it?
And what are your estimates for doing this? 50 codelines? compared to using two vbTab constants...

 

[esmel912]

project arrays

Thanks to all who helped i will try the suggestions out and see what results i get