How to space text evenly in a textbox

[jmsrickland]

I need to keep score in a game for player 1 and player 2 so in the textbox I will have lines that look like this:

      Player 1    Player 2

  1)  F3 - G2     H1 - Q5
  2)  H21 - J8    B10 - D3
          '           '
          '           '
 12)  G15 - U1    B1 - C33
          '           '
103)  J11 - K2    M44 - P1

I need to keep the spacing even so move numbers align up on the right and the distance from Player1's move to Player2's move align up on the left

[westconn1]

if you are using a fixed width font, you can just count the characters and pad with spaces

if you are using proportional fonts (as i would be), you need to set a form or picturebox to the same font (name and size), then you can calculate the text widths using the textwidth property, and again pad with spaces

alternatively you can try sendmessage API with EMTABSTOPS or using other drawtext APIs

[jmsrickland]

I kind of thought there is a Tab statement that puts the text at certain columns

[sten2005]

Why not have 2 textboxes, one for each player.

[DataMiser]

I kind of thought there is a Tab statement that puts the text at certain columns

Yes of course you can use tabs.

Try this where text1 is a multiline text box

Text1.Text = "Hello" & vbTab & "There" & vbCrLf & "Mr." & vbTab & "Smith"

Of course there are some gotchas with tabs if your data is a bit longer on one line causing it to jump a tab

[westconn1]

Of course there are some gotchas with tabs

that is why you set tabstop positions using sendmessage
there will be many examples, if you do not find one i can dig one up

[Bobbles]

You could also use a grid, and make the cell borders invisible

[jmsrickland]

Why not have 2 textboxes, one for each player.

How then to scroll each textbox with only one vertical scrollbar?

[jmsrickland]

You could also use a grid, and make the cell borders invisible

As long as I can scroll the cells

[Nightwalker83]

@jmsrickland, Why use a text box and not a listview, etc that has columns.

[Bobbles]

As long as I can scroll the cells

Yup.
If there are more rows than there are visible, then a scroll bar appears, and the user can scroll.
I have not used the Flexgrid for years, as I use the free SGrid 2 instead
It would be quicker for you (getting up to speed) to use the Flexgrid.
Yell out if you wish me to refresh (my 72 year old) memory on that grid.

Rob

PS Anyone familiar with the flexgrid can you assure us, that the horizontal and vertical rows/columns borders can be invisible ? ?

[Bobbles]

I am attaching an example demonstrating the flexgrid as a scrollable, no cell borders, list
I am rusty on flexgrid so have not attempted to play with formatting, spacing, Font selection, etc.
Not yet fully matching your needs. But I am sure that the flexgrid can be configured to get the exact spacing, etc that you will require.
Yell out if you wish further help.
Rob