xdialog text field alignment

[Clunes]

I know I can right justify a text box in an xdialog, but how do I align the contents. By defalt characters are left. I want ot set it so they are right as numeric do.

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

I searched for help everywhere on this and it would appear no succh capability exits, so for those interested I did a work around that measures the length of the characters in the field and add spaces to the beginning of the text to match the size of the field. bit fuzzy but achieves the desired asthetic result

I considered this a basic shortfall in the ability of the xdialog, one that I thoght would exist, so if I am missing something please let me know.

[G Gabriel]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

See this

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Thank you for that insight. that must have been an interesting post at the time. Shame that it is as far back as version 8 and there has been some sort of property enhancement to the xdialog field structure.

I will look at your solution from there as it is one simple line of code whereas my solution was three lines and some declarations

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Your replicate function did the trick. Thanks

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

More feed back. While I began using your replicate function

vtext=replicate(" ",30-len(alltrim(vtext))+vtext

I found that as I was working with numbers with decimal places, I could also achieve it with the str(). If you presume your vtext = "123"

vtext = str(val(vtext),2,10)

10 = the size of the field so the above effective did " 123.00" placed it to right align with leading spaces.

One glitch in both solutions is the actual character width will impact on accuracy. For intsance a 1 is thinner than a 2 etc. In a small field of 10 character it is neglible and only relevant if the it is refrence to align with fields above and below

[G Gabriel]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

You might want to use a monospaced typeface font such as Courier, Monaco, Prestige Elite etc.

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Ok - you have me interested. How do I set the font for a text box on an xdialog?

[G Gabriel]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

{font}

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Thanks - Grasshopper has grasped another pebble

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Appreciate you getting me going on this one. interesting I have so far found the courier font to be the best. In trialling I noted the 8pt courier font extended past the boundaries of the text box. this made me explore how the width is measured and I found that it is based on Arial 8 font, so in order to get the look correct for a 10 character field I needed to set the box width property to at least 18

So in practice, unless I am missing something, the {font} will change the fonts for input text but not the font size used to size the textbox control

[G Gabriel]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

I noted the 8pt courier font extended past the boundaries of the text box.

Not sure what do you mean?

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Basically the Courier font is a wider font than Arial. the text box uses the arial font size for its width.
This is from the helpfile on textbox

By default, the width of an Xdialog control (that has a width argument) is dimensioned in characters. The width of a single character is based on 8 point Arial font. Likewise, the height of an Xdialog control (that has a height argument) is dimensioned in lines. Again, the height of a line is based on 8 point Arial. Fractional decimal values are allowed for width and height arguments.

So it appears that if I set the {font=Courier,8} it adjusts the text but not the properties of the text box. If I had a textbox [.10text] it is only made to the width of teh Arial font. A courier font aligned to the right extends past the right hand edge

[Clunes]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Can I add that I note the height of the textbox does change with the font. It appears only the width does not. I would say it is a bug

[G Gabriel]

Re: xdialog text field alignment

Both adjust. No bugs. I wasn't sure what you meant by extended past the boundaries of the text box. They don't "spill over", they simply scroll to the right which means your box is not wide enough.