>>I need to load a list box in a SCAN/ENDSCAN.
>>
>>Some columns may or may not be visible, so I want to set the ColumnWidths property
>>from the data.
>>
>>How do I calculate the ListBox ColumnWidth? I could use FONTMETRIC(6,,) * FSIZE(), but that
>>would result in some really wide columns in the listbox.
>
>You could calculate max(txtwidth(alltrim(yourfield), listbox.fontname, listbox.fontsize, "N"), that would give you a pretty good estimate. Add a few pixels for margin.
Hi Dragan,
I think the confusing part was the ALLTRIM here. Why do we need to use ALLTRIM and not the whole width of the field?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
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