On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:47 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, necessity being a mother and all that, I got inspired to put this > in the KeyDown event of an EditField: > > static fakeTab As String = Encodings.UTF8.Chr( &h2003 ) > if Key = Chr(9) then > me.selText = fakeTab > return true > end if > return false > > Unicode &h2003 is the "Em Space" character. It's a whitespace > character that's significantly longer than your typical space > character. The code above intercepts any press of the Tab key and > inserts an Em Space instead.
How about using the regular space character so that you're not tied to a specific font? You could then measure the cursor's current position in characters, do modulus math to compare it against a tabstop setting and add the appropriate number of spaces (allows user to specify tabstops - I use 2 in HTML, 4 in C, and 8 in Python). Also, since spaces and character widths will totally mess up the layout when using a variable width font, you might consider locking the font choices to fixed width fonts. Tim -- Tim Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
