Ah I see. Well, I'll check the font first. Maybe that will do the trick. But I'm still open for suggestions. Thanks Arsalan. ;)
Benj On Apr 13, 12:54 pm, Arsalan Tamiz <[email protected]> wrote: > Concatenating is good workaround but as you can see you are having the > alignment problem this is because the normal fonts like Sans Serif, Arial or > Tahoma does NOT have fixed width character set. You can use Courier New or > Lucida Console fonts because these fonts have fixed width character set and > thus will solve your alignment problem > > There are other ways which you can use to customize the built-in ComboBox. I > think the simplest way is to set the *DrawMode* property = > *OwnerDrawFixed*and then use ComboBox's > *DrawItem* event. But in this way you will be responsible for displaying > items using drawing routines like *DrawString()* etc. which is a bit complex > way to do. > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Benj Nunez <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello experts, > > > I need to know if it's possible to align the fields defined in a > > combobox? Right now I'm having difficulty > > implementing a multi-column combobox so I'll stick to concatenating > > one or more fields by overriding the > > toString() method from a dto like so: > > > class Contacts > > { > > string LastName; > > string FirstName; > > string EmployeeNumber; > > ... > > } > > > public override string ToString() > > { > > return String.Format("{0},{1}({2})", LastName, > > FirstName, EmployeeNumber); > > } > > > I tried doing this: > > > public override string ToString() > > { > > return String.Format("{0},{1}({2})", > > LastName.Padright(20), > > FirstName.Padright(10), EmployeeNumber); > > } > > > Still, the fields don't line up properly. Although when called using > > TextWriter > > or Console.writeline(), it is possible. any ideas? > > > Benj > > > -- > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
