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Is there any way to use tabs for (text positioning) in a
dialog control (list/edit/combo ect) ?
for example so text can be entered at a specific tab or colume
or using the tab key when entering text into an edit box ect?

if not is there any likelyhood of tabs being implemented?

Thanx

You can't use tabs to align the text atm.
You could try using a hard space (not all have one, but most do) which is normally either $chr(160) or $chr(255)

yes i have looked at hard spaces,
but that would only work if used with a fixed width font

Actually, hard spaces will work with variable width fonts as well. It just depends on the specific font.

which depends on what font a user has set his system/mirc font to...
what im actually trying to do is devide a single list contro into 3 coloumes as follows

data1 data2 data3
data4 data5 data 6

and so on.
without tabs the columes will not line up vertically.
i've concidered using 3 seperate list controls but then scrolling
the 3 controls simultaneously becomes very problemactic.

there should be multiple spaces/tabs between the columes but like mirc this editor has stripped them out.

You might look into the different DLLs available (MDX, hOS, etc). One of those should have the ability to use columns in a list box, I would think.

That said, I would think there would be a way to lock two or more lists/scrollbars together so that doing something to one would do the same to another. I don't think this is possible without a DLL, but it would be useful.

You might also attempt checking for change of position of the scrollbar and then changing the position of the other list's scrollbar to match.

I do think we should have a $tab control for listboxes and combo boxes and all that.

Hmmm, that MDX.dll looks very interesting and useful
Know a good place to download it from with tutorials?

Thanx

1. MDX & Reference
2. MDX Tutorials
3. MDX Studio, a visual dialog editor for mIRC that can draw MDX controls.

The thing I don't like with MDX Studio is it wont let you add tabs to the dialogs.

Thank You Guys

thats just the ticket i was looking for

make the tabs in dialog studio
then in MDX studio make several dialogs with the same width heights that correspond with the tabs and just add ,tab1 etc behind them :tongue:
i use MDX and dstudio and Abbyss all together as each does something the other does not lol