Hmm . . . the "just get a fixed-width font and embed it in your app"
approach definitely doesn't seem like the "Right Way" to do things here.
FntCharsInWidth is the "Right Way" and has the added bonus of working with
any font that may be installed on the system.  If a user has replaced the
default font using a 3rd party utility, I would think apps should generally
respect that choice.  I agree there are certain cases where fixed-width
fonts are quite appropriate (serial terminal comms apps), however, I don't
think that this case (ie: how do I make multiple left-aligned text columns
in a non-fixed-width font in a list box) is one of them.

-DGA

> This is probably too complicated.  How about using custom 
> fixed size font? 
> There are free console/tty font available.
> 
> Max
> --- Steve Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >How can I achieve propper formatting of list items (PalmOS3.5, 4)?
> > 
> > Use a list drawing callback function and explicitly draw each group 
> > of chars at a specific pixel location using WinDrawChars or 
> something 
> > similar.

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