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From: henryml@daimi.aau.dk (Michael Lassen)
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Subject: Re: PutformatInTextScrollList
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 11:29:15 +0200 (MET DST)
Organization: DAIMI, Computer Science Dept. at Aarhus University
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At 13:49 03/04/98, Hans Erik Stubbe Solgaard wrote:
>I have posted this problem before, but I haven't got
>the solution yet?!
>
>The problem I have is to get PutFormat to work in a TextScrollList.
>The result of the underneath object is printed both in the
>textscrolllist and in the window opened with the programme.
>
>In the TextScrollList it looks something like this:
>
>
>Name1     21   23    4    4
>Name2    12   47    9    0
>name3      20   30    8    4
>
>

You have to make your TextScrollList use a fixed width font
such as Courier. Here is an example:

myTextScrollList: @textScrollList
  (# open::
       (# theTextStyle: @textStyle;
       do 'Courier' -> theTextStyle.name;
          12 -> theTextStyle.size;
          theTextStyle[] -> style;
       #);
  #);

Be careful to use a font that exists on all the platforms,
that your program should run on. Courier is almost always
available.

You can't change the font used in the TextScrollList in  Frigg
- you have to change add the above lines to the code using Sif
or some other editor.

--
Michael