Alignment problem displaying .txt file in window's textbox?

[Guest]

Hi everyone,

I try to a display a .txt file in window's textbox or rich textbox. The
text file has contents line by line aligned perfectly when using NotePad to
view and print it. But when I display this .txt file in textbox or rich
textbox the alignment all messed up. Please help me to solve this problem.

Thanks in advance.

Nina

 

[Guest]

Nina,

Be sure you are using a fixed-pitch font like Courier-New and not a
proportional font for the textbox or rich textbox.

Also be sure the textbox is wide enough to display an entire line without
wordwrapping.

Kerry Moorman

 

[Larry Lard]

Hi everyone,

I try to a display a .txt file in window's textbox or rich textbox. The
text file has contents line by line aligned perfectly when using NotePad to
view and print it. But when I display this .txt file in textbox or rich
textbox the alignment all messed up. Please help me to solve this problem.

Set the font of the textbox to Courier New (or some other fixed-width
font, eg Lucida Console).

 

[George Hardy]

change the textbox font to something that is monospaced. Courier New is a
truetype font that has the same width for a "I" as a "W". If you use a font
like Arial, then the "I" will be much narrower, and your text alignment is
off.

hth
gh

 

[Guest]

Thank you so much to all of you. It displays perfectly now.

Thanks again.

Nina