How to pad strings correctly..

[MrNorth]

In my app im iterating through a collection of linteitem objects

These are very simple objects and are used to make lines for printing...

objects has two properties text and offset

text is the text to be printed and offset is the position from left marginal where the text is to begin. The printout will look something like this:


YUYYU OIUYOI OYUOY OUYUYOU

12we 9wewe iiiii232 wew

etc etc


As you notice I want the lines to match perfectly column-wise...
But how do I do this?? In the string I can only count characters, and characters differ in width, like "O" and "i"... and I don't have a font-object... only a string to work with...


How should I proceed?? I apply brush and font when I print the line to printer... But how should I line them up so I add enough space between them so it doesn't matter if the stirings are made of OOOO OOOO or iiiii iiiiii?


kind regards
Henrik

[nemaroller]

Not sure exactly what you want.

For printouts, a fixed-width font (like Courier) would solve that problem.

[MrNorth]

I think I just wanted a fix width font Upon testing I used arial, and the width changed depending on what kind of characters the line contained, therefor it was impossible to maintain proper columns... since they differed in size depending on the character...
I did a simple function that counted how many " " it should fill up with until the next column is to be written, but it counted only characters, not the actual width in pixels.... and Im not sure if the font character has a width, I think they only has height


kind regards
Henrik

[MrNorth]

Actually, it was Courier New which was fixed size, not Courier It works now, thanks



/Henrik