Hi there....

I'm new to vb and am having problems
with the scalemode property.

More specifically...
I want to have a fraction :

say: 8
-------
5

to always be printed to a picturebox ->"picture1.print"<-
with a variable length string:

eg: of desired output->

eg: heloooooooooooooooooooooooo 8
-------
5

or : helooo 8
-----
5

and the distance between the end of the string and the start of the fraction to always be 2 characters long!

It appears to be an easy problem, but when I set the scalemode of the picturebox to be = 4 (character)
and I add say 10 to the CurrentX , this gives me
about 20 characters of space, the problem is that it
is not quite 20, and to make things worse , if I change
the font, it seems to introduce all sorts of non linear
relationships between the number I assign to
CurrentX and the number of "character spaces" I get
in return.


Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Borris King.