Tab stops in ListBox gadget
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| Is there a way to set tab stops with a list box the same way you can with a text area? It seems that any list box item I add ignores the "~t" character. |
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| Probably not. You could always replace tabs with a set number of spaces to give the idea of indentation (which I presume you are after?). Tree views are good at showing sub-items too ;-) |
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| You could always replace tabs with a set number of spaces to give the idea of indentation (which I presume you are after?). No, that is not what I am after. I am trying to format items in a list. I can't just use a set number of spaces because of the variable width characters, and I really don't want to switch to a fixed width font. Here's a sample of what I'm talking about. SuperStrict
Import maxgui.drivers
Global MainWindow:TGadget = CreateWindow("Hello",0,0,800,600,Null,WINDOW_TITLEBAR|WINDOW_CENTER)
Global TextList:TGadget = CreateTextArea(0,0,ClientWidth(MainWindow),ClientHeight(MainWindow),MainWindow) 'Create a text area
'Global TextList:TGadget = CreateListBox(0,0,ClientWidth(MainWindow),ClientHeight(MainWindow),MainWindow) 'create a list box
Global ID:Int[] = [101,215,351,412,508]
Global Name:String[] = ["frank","Mary","Judy","Mike","Sam"]
For Local i:Int = 0 To 4
AddTextAreaText(TextList,ID[i]+"~t"+Name[i]+"~n") 'Add An Item to the text area
'AddGadgetItem(TextList,ID[i]+"~t"+Name[i]) 'Add an item to the list box
Next
Repeat
WaitEvent()
If EventID() = EVENT_WINDOWCLOSE Or EventID() = EVENT_APPTERMINATE Then End
Forever
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| Ah, I get you. So what you really want is a multi-column listbox, which still isn't available in your bog-standard MaxGUI, as far as I am aware. Your best bet (whilst sticking with MaxGUI), would be to forge your own "proxy" gadget which takes on the appearance of a listbox with multiple columns. Probably a load of work though. Your next-best bet would be to enquire (again) about multi-column listbox support in MaxGUI. Your next-next-best bet would be some kind of third-party replacement GUI. But they are usually more OOP-based than MaxGUI's BlitzBasic procedural approach. :o) |
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| Hello, there are 2 different listviews in this site, one by Ziltch and one by Ghostdancer. Search "listview". There is a poor man's option to use LSet() or RSet() to pad a string to certain length, but it's a bit problematic, as you said, fonts usually have different length characters. -Henri PS. ListViews are Windows only |
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| I would try a readonly textarea and add some code to manage / set active / select entire lines. |
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| You might want to give this a try. Quite a few users here would gladly pay for a cross-platform multi-column listbox support. - Don't expect miracles as Seb is gone. |
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| Thanks for the help. Looks like I might have to kludge something together since I do want to eventually compile for Mac and Linux. |
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| While I do have a multi column listbox coming with Logic Gui it is unfortunately windows only: http://jsp.logiczone.de/downloads/ListViewDemo.zip For a simple cross platform multi column listbox I actually used also a fixed font. Did the task for what I needed. |
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