Right-Justify Variable-Pitch Font?

[PeteCresswell]

Got a TreeView.

Top node is the name of a company concatonated with some numbers about
the company.

Users want company name on the left and the numbers on the right.

Tried a few monospaced fonts, but the tree's readability goes down the
tubes.

Seems like there ought tb an API call or something where I feed it a
text string, text size, and a font name and it returns something like
the width of the rendered text.

Using that, I could right-justify no matter if the font is variable-
pitch.

Anybody been here?

 

[PeteCresswell]

Anybody been here?

I should add that I've used routines that compute the width of a text
box's contents... but in this case we have not text box. Just an
ASCII string and the name/props of the font.

I guess one workaround would be to open up a little invisible form
with a text box on it, load the text box control with the text in
question, and work from there. But that sounds like it might raise
performance issues when building a large tree....

 

[PeteCresswell]

Aplogies in advance for the wretched excess of self-replies....

But I think I've answered my own question courtesy of Stephen LeBans.

http://www.lebans.com/justicombo.htm

 

[Stephen Lebans]

Hi Pete,
have a peek here:
http://www.lebans.com/textwidth-height.htm
BUG FIX!!!!!!! Thanks to Marshall Barton for the "Hey it's great but I don't
think it works perfectly" Email. I finally took the time to figure out
exactly what is going on when Access renders text. Unfortunately now I have
to go back and update all of my other projects to make them as accurate as
this one!

TextHeightWidth.zip is a replacement for the Report object's TextWidth and
TextHeight methods. It is multiline aware and can work in both Report and
Form views. Includes a sample report to show you how to autosize individual
controls with different formatting on the same line to simulate RTF style
text.



History

Version 4.5: Increased accuracy of auto sizing for a ListBox.

Version 4.3: Added sample Form to demonstrate auto sizing for a ListBox.

Version 4.2: Added report to demonstrate auto sizing to mix text formatting
on one row.

Version 4.1: First Release that works!!!<grin>

Version 1.0: First Release
--

HTH
Stephen Lebans
http://www.lebans.com
Access Code, Tips and Tricks
Please respond only to the newsgroups so everyone can benefit.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per Stephen Lebans:

have a peek here:
http://www.lebans.com/textwidth-height.htm

TextHeightWidth.zip is a replacement for the Report object's TextWidth and
TextHeight methods.

I'll take a look, but my basic problem seems tb 100% solved
thanks to lifting your code.

My immediate need was to right justify some numbers rendered in
variable-pitch. viz: http://tinyurl.com/27v3oo

Wouldn't have had a clue without your valuable web site.

Thanks again.