set the tab space

[ravi15481]

hi friends,

can we set the vbTab property. i mean by default it is the system specified no. of spaces for vbtab, but i want vbtab to make the space of two spaces.

thanx,

[swatty]

You can make your own if you like.

You can have a global variable MyTab declared as string *2

On the first form wich opens in your code initialise it with an empty string.


Then you can use it instead of vbTab

[ravi15481]

sorry swatty....
what u said will create 2 spaces. i want something like vbtab u can see that vb tab is one character only. where as what u have said will return the length as 2 chars.

thanx

[tr0n]

i don't think you can. like you said, tab is one character. it's like saying "can i make the A character a B character". in the VB IDE it looks like they just intercept the tab key press and use however many spaces you tell it to in the options dialog.

[ravi15481]

as swatty said, is there any way to create my own tabspace. it should behave same as vbtab but the no. of spaces should be 2 only. and the length of if should be one.

thanx

[Frans C]

vbTab corresponds with ASCII character 9. It depends on the program you use to view the text with, how it will be displayed.

[swatty]

If you type the following in your immidiate pane you'll see some differences concerning the vbTab constant.

Like Frans C mentioned it corresponds to the ASCII character 9.
Like you mentioned it has a length of 1
but try this in the immidiate pane

m = vbtab              ' enter
?m                          ' enter
   ' you'll see it jumps two lines further if you then use the left arrow button , you see it has as much items in it as the value
'of Tab with in the Tools-> Options -> editor page
' you can check the len of it it will always be one
?len(vbtab)

If you use a string of 2 chars like i said and NOT initialize it with an empty string , the length will be 2 but if you test it against a string " " (two spaces) it will not be equal.