>>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?