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Re: Right justifying text [message #18155 is a reply to message #18146]

Thu, 02 December 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Robert S. Mallozzi (Robert.Mallozzi@msfc.nasa.gov) writes:

> If you set the size of the text area explicitly, you
> could do something like this:
>
> xsize = 40
> ysize = 1
> base = WIDGET_BASE (/COLUMN)
> text = WIDGET_TEXT (base, XSIZE = xsize, YSIZE = ysize, VALUE = '')
> WIDGET_CONTROL, /REALIZE, base
>
> num = 10.00
> fmt = "(F" + STRTRIM (xsize, 2) + ".2)" ; F40.2
>
> str = STRING (num, FORMAT = fmt)
> WIDGET_CONTROL, text, SET_VALUE = str
>
> You could make the number of digits after the decimal point a
> parameter as well; here I just hardcoded it to 2.

Humm. Maybe if you have a non-proportionally spaced
font in the text widget, but I doubt otherwise. A
table widget allows you to justify text. Maybe
Phil Aldis will write us a nice CW_FIELD-like compound
widget object that uses a Table Widget rather than a text
widget. :-)

Cheers,

David
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