On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:05 AM, Tim Jones wrote:
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 9:47 AM, joe at strout dot net wrote:
>
>> So, necessity being a mother and all that, I got inspired to put this
>> in the KeyDown event of an EditField:
>>
>> static fakeTab As String = Encodings.UTF8.Chr( &h2003 )
>> if Key = Chr(9) then
>> me.selText = fakeTab
>> return true
>> end if
>> return false
>>
>> Unicode &h2003 is the "Em Space" character. It's a whitespace
>> character that's significantly longer than your typical space
>> character. The code above intercepts any press of the Tab key and
>> inserts an Em Space instead.
>
> How about using the regular space character so that you're not tied
> to a specific font? You could then measure the cursor's current
> position in characters, do modulus math to compare it against a
That should have said "remainder math"...
> tabstop setting and add the appropriate number of spaces (allows user
> to specify tabstops - I use 2 in HTML, 4 in C, and 8 in Python).
> Also, since spaces and character widths will totally mess up the
> layout when using a variable width font, you might consider locking
> the font choices to fixed width fonts.
>
> Tim
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