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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Multicolumn listboxes
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:11:18 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.181118.14195@wes.on.ca>
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- All right, so maybe this is a FAQ, but it's not in the FAQ. :) I did a
- fair bit of Mac work waaaay back in 1984, but I've done much more Windows
- development since, so I feel a little bit lost in the Mac world.
-
- What I'm trying to do is have a listbox with multiple aligned columns,
- sort of like this: :)
- +--------------------------+
- | Smith Michael |
- | Johnson Dave |
- | O'Brien Dan |
- | |
- +--------------------------+
-
- In Windows, I'd create the listbox with the LBS_USESTABSTOPS style, but I
- don't know what to do on the Mac. Do I need to claculate string lengths?
- (I hope not!) Is there a way to get List Manager to recognize tabs?
-
- Unfortunately, I've found it hard to find all this documented. :( I have
- spent over $150 on manuals, including Inside Mac I and V, and the first three
- volumes of the Chernicoff books (volume 3 was supposed to cover List Manager,
- but doesn't), and I'm still stuck.
-
- Any assistance will be highly appreciated!
-
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