Equalize Size of Lines in RichtextBox

I want to make a poetry writing application. I want every verse of a poem to be equal in size. e.g

Some love good some love bad
We all want something we never had

This should look like this by adding white spaces or something else.

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Some  love  good  some  love  bad
We all want something we never had

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I can justify the text in Richtextbox but how to check the size biggest line in Richtextbox selection and then equalize all lines according to that line.

Any help please.

Interesting One. One my brain is not fully working on but might give you a start.

Something like

vb Code:

Public Class Form1
 
    Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
                              ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
 
        Dim longest As Integer = Me.RichTextBox1.Lines.OrderByDescending(Function(s) s.Length)(0).Length
 
        For Each line In Me.RichTextBox1.Lines
            Dim difference As Integer = longest - line.Length
            Dim n As Integer
            While n < difference
                If Not line.Length = longest Then
                    ' Handle here
                End If
                n += 1
            End While
        Next
 
    End Sub
End Class

Thanks. But I am afraid it is not the real game. We cannot go with line.Length feature. Because there are words which occupy more space then some. For example: Q occupy more space then i. And in Persian script ے occupy more space then ا . There we need any other feature.

Take a look at MeasureString.

Maybe you should of stated this to begin with ;)

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I can justify the text in Richtextbox

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Using what method?

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Using what method?

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I am using an extended richtextbox with some modification. Last year I posted its source here:
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...-control-usage

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Originally Posted by dbasnett

Take a look at MeasureString.

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It is a pretty good one. I can now get the right measurement of lines. Following code give me the measurement of biggest line. Then only thing I left with to equal the size of each line. I think I can achieve this by increasing the size of white spaces while checking the measurement of current line at the same time. But now the problem is if I increase the size of white space then how can I measure the size of string again with multiple font sizes. Because in beginning we can set a specific font for our measurement.

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        For Each line In RichTextBox1.Lines
            Dim textSize As Size = TextRenderer.MeasureText(line , RichTextBox1.Font)
            If textSize.Width > biggest Then
                biggest = textSize.Width
            End If
            count = count + 1
        Next

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Would it not be easier just to change the width of the textbox to that of the longest line and justify?

By the way the extended RTB and VS 2010 don't get along unfortunately (the second time this week that I've run into problems with the older interop!) so I'm afraid I gave up on trying it.

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Would it not be easier just to change the width of the textbox to that of the longest line and justify?

By the way the extended RTB and VS 2010 don't get along unfortunately (the second time this week that I've run into problems with the older interop!) so I'm afraid I gave up on trying it.

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Unfortunately I cannot change the width RTB.

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Originally Posted by hackerspk

Unfortunately I cannot change the width RTB.

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Of course you can, Malcolm! (Blimey that takes me back - old British cold remedy ad - ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be.)

Now where was I? Oh yeah. Use a borderless RTB on a white panel and you can change the width at will and nobody will ever know!

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Of course you can, Malcolm! (Blimey that takes me back - old British cold remedy ad - ah, nostalgia's not what it used to be.)

Now where was I? Oh yeah. Use a borderless RTB on a white panel and you can change the width at will and nobody will ever know!

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Ha Ha Ha. I am developing a much complex application. It is an open source RichTextEditor.
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Ok. But Then I don't really seee the logic of justifying for poetry anyway. Consider The Rose by E. E. Cummings, a poet who liked to play with the structure of words on the page as well as the actual words ....

the rose
is dying the
lips of an old man murder

the petals
hush

mysteriously invisible mourners move
with prose faces and sobbing,garments
The symbol of the rose

motionless
with grieving feet and
wings
mounts

against the margins of steep song
a stallion swetneess ,the

lips of an old man murder
the petals.


Would you really want to stretch out 'hush' to the length of 'with prose faces and sobbing,garments' or introduce spacing into ',the' where there quite deliberately isn't any? I can't pretend that I am familiar with Urdu or Persian poetry but I would imagine that there must be some for whom typographical correctness is as important as the actual words?

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Originally Posted by dunfiddlin

Ok. But Then I don't really seee the logic of justifying for poetry anyway. Consider The Rose by E. E. Cummings, a poet who liked to play with the structure of words on the page as well as the actual words ....

the rose
is dying the
lips of an old man murder

the petals
hush

mysteriously invisible mourners move
with prose faces and sobbing,garments
The symbol of the rose

motionless
with grieving feet and
wings
mounts

against the margins of steep song
a stallion swetneess ,the

lips of an old man murder
the petals.


Would you really want to stretch out 'hush' to the length of 'with prose faces and sobbing,garments' or introduce spacing into ',the' where there quite deliberately isn't any? I can't pretend that I am familiar with Urdu or Persian poetry but I would imagine that there must be some for whom typographical correctness is as important as the actual words?

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I don't really know about English literature very well. But Urdu literature has a specific type of poetry named "Ghazal" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazal.
This type is very popular in sub continent. Ghazal demands this type of settings. This specific type of poetry you posted is called "Nazam". In this type no settings are required at all.

Ah yes, I see. But there are variations even within that, including a two column text with a bridging column at the end or regularly throughout the poem which are going to be even more difficult.

I'm wondering whether we have a case here of where a servant can't serve two masters and an all-purpose text editor is always going to struggle with the disciplines of something like Ghazal. At the very least you do need a way to define margins as it clearly isn't a one size fits all canvas for this kind of work and I can't help feeling that the easiest way to do that is still to resize the textbox, preferably automatically when in Ghazal mode, as it were. Using a panel behind for this would also make it simpler to deal with right, centre and left, alignments.

Anyway, such are my thoughts. Do what you will with them.

Impressive knowledge of Poetry dunfiddlin

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Originally Posted by ident

Impressive knowledge of Poetry dunfiddlin

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Ah well. I'm not a pretty face! No, wait ....