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How To Align Real Values inside a StringGrid

How do you right-align real values inside columns of a StringGrid using Tahoma as font? .. Right now I encounter problems because what I do is add spaces in front of the text to move it to the right .. however, it doesn't work quite well .. the values seem to be in zigzag mode .. Is there something wrong with what I do? or is it because of the font? .. especially when there are commas (',') in the value. Is there a way to get around this problem?

Yvann

Jacco

Hi Yvann,

Yes the font is the problem if you use Courier as the font you wil not have this problem. You can either use a DrawGrid to overcome this problem (downside is that the drawgrid will not store data). Or you can use the OnDrawCell event of the TStringGrid.

In the OnDrawCell even you you can issue a Canvas.TextOut on the correct position. You can calculate the width of the string by calling Canvas.TextWidth(sYourString). And then use Rect.Right - iTextWidth - 3 as the X coordinate in the Canvas.TextOut call.

Regards Jacco

yurrea

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Jacco

I'll check it out.

Yvann

PeterLarsen

This should give you an idea.

var
R1 : TRect;
begin
R1:=StringGrid1.CellRect(x, y)
DrawText(StringGrid1.Canvas.Handle, PChar(Text), -1, R1, DT_CALCRECT or DT_RIGHT or
DT_WORDBREAK or DT_NOPREFIX or DrawTextBiDiModeFlagsReadingOnly);
end;

Regards
Peter

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yurrea

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Jacco, PeterLarsen:

I can't seem to make your solutions work. :(
Sorry guys.

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This is what I'm looking for, and it works fine. :)

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No worries - you'r problem is solved - thats what counts !!

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