DrawText and tabs
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Hello, First post, please be gentle! :-) I've written some code that writes some variables to a text file, basically : Line$[i]=Name$+Tab$+Score+Tab$+"Level "+Level Where Tab$=Chr(9) This writes perfectly, tabs and all, however when I read back the file with : Repeat ScoresDone=1 Line$[i]=ReadLine(fileread) i=i+1 Until Eof(fileread) Then display with a loop for each and the command: DrawText(Line$[loopvariable]),x,y) the tabs aren't included on screen. If I use the print command, they display on the output box as I see them if I open the text file? I've searched the forums, but to no avail - how do I get tabs to display with the drawtext command? Any help gratefully received! Thanks. |
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hi, try with tab$="~t" |
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Thanks, but again, that writes to the text file perfectly, but does not display the tabs via DrawText when read in. |
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This appears to be a bug. Even DrawText "This is an example~twith~ttabs",10,10 doesn't work. When using print, the space between "example" and "with" is greater than the spacing between "with" and "tabs."Print "This is an example~twith~ttabs" Print "0123456789012345678901234567890123456789" This will display This is an example with tabs 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789 Edit: The web page shows the spacing differently in the example, so I replaced the tabs with spaces so it is shown the same way as on BlitzMAX. There are 6 spaces between "example" and "with" and only 2 spaces between "with" and "tabs." |
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DrawText does not accept any kind of string formating signs like ~n and ~t. If you want something like that you must do the drawtext calls accordingly and split the string. (this goes for tab as for multi line) |
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TomToad, it's not a bug, maybe the tab space size is equal to 6. Every 6 positions is a tab marker.This is an example with tabs 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789 x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x |
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Thanks all - I'll have a go at splitting the strings now... |