Problem RTF columns positions Power builder 12.5

[Former Member]

Hi,

We a problem with RTF report margins in Powerbuilder 12.5 .

We noticed a different type of margins interpretation between Powerbuilder 9 and 12.5 when there are many fields in the same row.

We would like to display the single fields under a specific heading column, as a table;  for example:

heading1          heading2      heading3

column1           column2       column3   

In powerbuilder 9 was easy to do this , by setting the heading columns and fixing the fields positions , by tabbing as shown below

In Powerbuilder 12.5 this doesn't work properly, because the fields are shifted from the original position. The result is this:

Only the first 2 colums are correctly aligned, the third (A POS) is not well positioned.

Someone have any idea to how work around this problem?

Thank you

Luca

[Former Member]

Did you try to change your default tab settings?

[Former Member]

Hi Luca;

  Have you tried using a non-proportional (fixed width) font ( ie: Courier, Courier New, and Lucinda Console, etc )?

Regards ... Chris

[Former Member]

Hi Chris,

yes we tried and using fixed width font is a possible solution. In every case you have to create a compute field to fixed the lenght of the column , otherwise you can't be sure that the columns positions (not heading column) is that you want ; and use another font instead the original.

We were wondering if there is another way....

Thank you so much

Luca

[Former Member]

Hi Luca;

  AFAIK this is the only way I have been able to accomplish the alignment in the new RTF control (3rd party control BTW) changed over in PB v10-10.5 time frame.

  I wish there was a setting in the RTF control in the Window or DW Painter that allowed us to set "Tab Stops" like you can in MS-Word - or - even a SetTabStop ( ) method that gave us more control at run time. 

Maybe someone else has another idea (<fingers crossed for you here>)

Regards ... Chris