Cesar, I spent about 30 minutes writing it in haste, and I would be ashamed to see it posted under my name. If you want I could send it to you through private message, if you don't mind to look at amateurish notes and debug it.
>Cool Edward,
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>Can you share your code ?
>I think it would be great to provide some other options to people.
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>If you agree, I can publish there at the same blog post with your credits
>:-)
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>TIA
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>Cesar
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>>>>Imho, this thing (justification) could be done without GdiPlus, by using FontMetric(), TxtWidth() functions only. I made some simple test this morning and it seems to work for editbox, so it could work for reports too.
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>>>Yep !
>>>There are always many ways to skin a fox !
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>>>I don't know why, but TXTWIDTH() and FONTMETRIC(6) don't seem to be very accurate. I've already tried this sometime ago, and the results were not as perfect as I got with GDI+.
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>>>Did you obtain a satisfactory result with TXTWIDTH() and big sentences ? MAybe for the case of editboxes, this can be a good solution.
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>>I tried for a report field now. It's not so nice as for editbox, but still much better than regular report field.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant