Unable to Change Proportional Fonts in Itemboxes

Keywords: proportional fonts fixed fonts itembox askitemlist box  

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Question:

As a quick programming technique I build a tab delimited item list and display it on screen through an itembox. Each item in the list is a number of data fields, padded to a standard length, separated by spaces from the next. (Quicker than using boxdraw functions). When winbatch displays the itembox it uses a proportional font, so the data items I have carefully lined up in the list don't align on the screen. This is particularly so with items containing letters like W & M. Is there anyway I can get winbatch to use a fixed font in the itembox ?

Answer:

Sorry. Itembox uses a proportional font.

You can get a AskItemList box to use a fixed font via a IntControl function, but the itembox in the dialogs are different and cannot be changed.

WIL Item List boxes use the standard Windows system font. We can't display these itemboxes using OEM or terminal fonts.

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Article ID:   W13135

Filename:   Change Proportional to Fixed Fonts in Itembox.txt