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Title: Tabstops in TextBox
Post by: Mark Strickland on July 14, 2005, 11:37:06 AM

I am trying to use TabStops in a single line TextBox. I found this little bit of code that works in VB but it seems to do nothing in FF.

Any thoughts?

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DIM tabstop (0 TO 2) AS LONG
DIM txt AS STRING
DIM stat AS LONG

    tabstop(0) = 90
    tabstop(1) = 130
    tabstop(2) = 185
  
   'set the tabs
    stat = SENDMESSAGE(HWND_FORM1_TEXT1, %EM_SETTABSTOPS, 3, tabstop(0))

    MSGBOX STR$(stat), %mb_ok+%mb_taskmodal, "SENDMESSAGE result"

    txt = "col1" + CHR$(9) + "col2" + CHR$(9) + "col3"
    FF_TEXTBOX_SETTEXT (HWND_FORM1_TEXT1, txt)

I even added a FF_REDRAW before and after just as a guess but that did not help.

The chr$(9)'s show as a block (un-printable character) but don't tab to the next column.

Thanks

Title: Tabstops in TextBox
Post by: Edwin Knoppert2 on July 14, 2005, 01:41:26 PM

It must be VarPtr( tabstop(0) )
Also, it didn't work with my single line edit box.
Only on multilined.

Title: Tabstops in TextBox
Post by: Charles Dietz on July 14, 2005, 02:03:50 PM

Edwin is exactly right... that's what I found with a small DDT example.

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