Correct. Since the length of the fields may vary (e.g. of lastnames:
"Villacorta", "Reyes", "del Rosario", etc.).
The same thing goes with the First Name.
At this point, I had to be contented with truncating the fields to at
least its first 10 or 15 characters. My code
currently looks like this:
string strFields = Utils.Utils.Truncate(LastName,
10).PadRight(15, ' ') +
Utils.Utils.Truncate(FirstName, 10).PadRight(25, '
') +
Utils.Utils.Truncate(EmployeeNumber.ToString(),
10);
It's a user-defined function by the way.
Cheers!
Benj
On Apr 15, 4:54 pm, Arsalan Tamiz <[email protected]> wrote:
> What? Concatenating isn't working?
>
> Most probably your strings have greater length than the length you have
> provided in Padding.
>
> In this line,
>
> return String.Format("{0},{1}({2})", LastName.Padright(20),
> FirstName.Padright(10),
> EmployeeNumber);
>
> *LastName* should NOT have more than 20 characters while *FirstName* should
> NOT have more than 10 characters.
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Benj Nunez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I checked it out. Still no go. :(
>
> > On Apr 13, 10:05 pm, Benj Nunez <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 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
>
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