Fixed Width Font

PML Customisation User Guide

Gadget Set : TextPane Gadgets : Fixed Width Font

The Textpane gadget definition has a new keyword ‘FixChars’ to force the use of a fixed width font.

This allows the text pane to be used to show simple reports laid out using the space character.

The chosen font is Courier New (TrueType), because it has a reasonable selection of character glyphs (nowhere near as extensive as the default variable width font Arial Unicode MS).

                       .--------<--------.

                      /                  |

>-- TEXTPane gname --+-- tagtext---------|

                     +-- <fganch> -------|

                     +-- <fgdock> -------|

                     +-- <fgpos> --------|

                     +-- FIXCHARS -------|

                     +-- CORE -----------* Core managed gadget

                     '-- <vshap> --->

Example

LAYOUT FORM !!textbug  dialog dock right NoAlign VarChars

   TITLE |Text input and output (!!textbug)|

. . .

   -- Text pane --------------------------------------------

   Path down

   hdist 1

   vdist 0.1

   --Default: variable spaced font

   textpane .tp1 |text pane| at xmin form anchor l+r+t wid 43 hei 9

. . .

define method .initialise()

  -- initialise on show

  -- add data into textpane

    !s[1] = | 1     Ford       Escort|

    !s[2] = | 2     Ford       Fiesta|

    !s[3] = | 3     Vauxhall   Nova|

    !s[4] = | 4     Vauxhall   Astra|

    !s[5] = | 5     Vauxhall   Lotus|

    !s[6] = |16     LandRover  RangeRover   £62000|

    !s[7] = |17     LandRover  Defender     £23999|

  !this.tp1.val = !s

. . .

Variable Spaced Font

Fixed Space Font

--Force fixed spacing font

textpane .tp1 |text pane| at xmin form anchor l+r+t FixChars wid 43 hei 9