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Format text output on the DBox

I'd like to create a format text output on a DBox created by hiDisplayUserDBox() function. The skill code is as following. What I want is "Word1" and "LongWord1", "Word2" and "LongWord2", "Word3“ and "LongWord3" are aligned virtically. But they don't. Why? And how to make that?

line1 = lsprintf("%-20s %-20s %-20s\n" "Word1" "Word2" "Word3")
line2 = lsprintf("%-20s %-20s %-20s\n" "LongWord1" "LongWord2" "LongWord3")
outMessage = strcat(line1 line2)
hiDisplayUserDBox(
?name 'dBox
?dboxBanner "Format output test"
?dboxText outMessage
?dialogType hicQuestionDialog
?buttons '(Cancel)
)

Thanks!

Martin

Andrew Beckett over 1 year ago

Martin,

This is because the font used has a variable width, so alignment is rather difficult just by padding with spaces.

You could add some simple HTML tags around the message:

outMessage = strcat("<pre>" line1 line2 "</pre>")

Which would give you:

(note that the <pre> tag has caused it to use a monospaced font).

Regards,

Andrew
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Martinsh over 1 year ago in reply to Andrew Beckett

Andrew,

It works well. Thanks!

Martin
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