You're better off using text members rather than fields. Set the tab points
on the ruler in the text edtior window. Then, while adding text into it,
you can add tabs at appropriate points in the text to align your chunks.
Look up the keyword 'tab' in the Director Help Manual. They've probably got
some sample code too.
Regards,
Pranav Negandhi
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Teo Petralia wrote:
>
> Hello!
> Another question for the day. I'm trying to write in a field on the
> fly information about products. I would like to write this product in
> a decent format, I mean in line like:
>
> Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla Bla
> Paris NO Why Not That's fine
> Rome OK So SO Maybe
> Vancouver NNN DSD KKKKK
>
> How can I get something like this. I tried to calculate the spaces
> between a row and another and then add the missing spaces but I don't
> know why it doesn't work.
It depends on the font the information is being displayed in. Most fonts
are what's called 'proportional', that is each letter gets the amount of
space on the line (setwidth) that it needs to look good. For example, the
'M' will get much more space than the 'i'. Each letter has been adjusted to
look its best and the quanta are generally very small for these adjustments
(< 1/1000 of a letter). A few fonts ('courier' for example) are what's
called 'monospace', each letter has the same setwidth as every other. Doing
what you want with a monospace font should be relatively easy, with a
proportional font it is likely to be impossible to do by simply adding
spaces.
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