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Re: Widget_List resizing problem [message #7260]

Mon, 28 October 1996 00:00

sterner
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Registered: February 1991

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davidf@fortnet.org (David Fanning) writes:

. . .
> With respect to list widgets, one thing you might try is to make all
> the string elements in the list the same length. Then there will be no
> need to resize as you scroll through the list. (At least if you are using
> a fixed-spaced font, as you claim.)

Here is a code fragment to pad all the lines of a string array
to match the longest line. It's not as general as David's
function but it might have its place:

padded = string(byte(string_array)>32B)

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