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... a rather difficult procedure. Unlike to MS DOS console programs with their fix font size for each letter and digit in Windows you must be aware of proportional width of characters. To be sure you could take n times to width of the biggest character, i think it's a 'W'. This value you can get from ...

... "E&xit Alt-X”; ACTION oWndMain:end() ACCELERATOR ACC_ALT, ASC("X") As the text is positioned using a proportional pitch font, I have found nothing in my 7.04 version that will allow me to create 2 aligned columns. Does an ability such as this exist?

... I can help you, but this is a typical problem with dialogs controls when created from code. It has to do with the current font, and if the font is proportional (e.g. Ms Sans Serif or Arial), the controls are no more like it used to be in MS-DOS because of the width (mainly) of the strings (SAYs ...

The only standard non-proportional true type font is Courier New, as far as I know. EMG There is also OCR-A that is non-proportional... The point is that the way to do what you want, is to use CMPRINT(). You need to know exactly the ...

... me insane! Does anyone have a routine that will right justify text on a printer. I am using the 'Courier New' font which does not appear to be a proportional font but still do not seem to get it right. In the 'old' DOS days we would say: @ 0, 80 - Len( cVar1 ) Say cVar1 @ 1, 80 - Len( cVar2 ) ...

The only standard non-proportional true type font is Courier New, as far as I know.

EMG

... the closest fonts to 'normal' and 'compressed' using FWH and Windows printing. Basically I need a 'normal' and 'compressed' font that does not use proportional spacing. I hope my question makes sense. Regards, Dale.