format Message Box

[Doug Bell]

Hi,
I have a message box that shows the User Qty Ordered, Qty Received, Balance,
Qty Accepted.

I have been trying to get it to format the quantities right aligned in a
column by looking at the lengths of the strings and padding them with
leading " " (spaces). but because the characters are different widths this
doesn't work.

Has anyone got any idea how I can do this with a messagebox or will I need
to build a special windows form?

Thanks

Doug

 

[Peter Proost]

Hi I would make my own messagebox, a normal winform and then use it's
..showdialog method, then you can align everything the way you want it.

Greetz Peter

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Hi I would make my own messagebox, a normal winform and then use it's
.showdialog method, then you can align everything the way you want it.

ACK. Some hints for implementing a messagebox replacement:

Implementing a message box with standard behavior
<URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/?id=custommsgbox&lang=en>

 

[Doug Bell]

Thanks Peter, Herfried

Doug

 

[Dave]

I've never tried this on this platform, but can't you just change the font
to fixed-width (e.g. Courier New) on this control?