Thread: List box help

Hello,
I am trying to use a list box control in a dialog based app and I want to format the output that is displayed in the list box like so:

Code:

 Item description                                   cost         tax
 first item here                                   $22.00       $1.00
 next item here                                    $22.00       $1.00

but I cant get the strings to line up properly under the headings because the font is a variable size. so I end up with something like this:

Code:

 Item description                                   cost           tax
 first item here                                        $22.00       $1.00
 next item here                               $22.00       $1.00
 anouther item here                            $22.00       $1.00

it depends on the characters used in the description how the string is displayed.Does anyone know how I can deal with this cause I am at a loss. the only other thing I can think of to do is make a differnt list boxes for each catagory and use one scroll bar for all 3 listboxes so that way the everything lines up. But can you send a scroll notification to a list box so that it will scroll up or down one line? Not sure how to do it. if anyone can help I would sure appreciate it.

thanks I will give that a go and see what happens

Create your list box with the LBS_USETABSTOPS style, you can then line up your text with TAB characters.

I will play with that as well. I got it to work with a fixed font but looks kinda ugly.