the same length of strings but different visualization!

huangchenmin · Post by **huangchenmin** » Fri May 06, 2011 8:29 am

Dear all:
I tried to add value of field to variable, then var to EDITBOX. the strange thing is all they are 40 character(with red underline). but have different look.
the picture A3 show length of third colunm, you could see thare 60characters for each one of third column. Meanwhile they do not look like having same length.
Therefor, I could not make next columnn left aligement.
Could anyone help!
Best Regards

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Fri May 06, 2011 9:42 pm

Fonts used are true types ? To get a same visual length you sould used same fonts and true type. Character "i" is not same length than "O" character. All characteres True types fonts are with same length and you should used it for concatenation proposes and in good order for visual proposes. Otherwise use grids to display all these itens.

huangchenmin · Post by **huangchenmin** » Sat May 07, 2011 4:54 am

Pablo César wrote:Fonts used are true types ? To get a same visual length you sould used same fonts and true type. Character "i" is not same length than "O" character. All characteres True types fonts are with same length and you should used it for concatenation proposes and in good order for visual proposes. Otherwise use grids to display all these itens.

Dear Pablo César
thanks for your resopnd.
Gird is not the one of options because of fail to copy multi items at the same time.
Is that following the way to set font of editbox 'true type' ?

define editbox
........
font 'true type'
......
end editbox

Best regards
chenmin

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Sat May 07, 2011 2:05 pm

Try to use Courier New as Monospaced font Click (here to read concepts).
Here some monospaced fonts most used in programming: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Surve ... id=1450254 and here some more samples: http://chris.widdowson.id.au/?p=22

huangchenmin · Post by **huangchenmin** » Mon May 09, 2011 4:15 pm

Pablo César wrote:Try to use Courier New as Monospaced font Click (here to read concepts).
Here some monospaced fonts most used in programming: http://www.codeproject.com/script/Surve ... id=1450254 and here some more samples: http://chris.widdowson.id.au/?p=22

Dear Pablo César
My problem had been solved because of suggestion you contributed.
Thank you very very much.
Best Regards
chen min

Pablo César · Post by **Pablo César** » Mon May 09, 2011 5:00 pm

I am very happy to know that my advices it´s helped you !

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