[Dragokas]

Hi.

Like, if I want to have 2 columns in menu with correct alignment:

AddItem("Weapon1      - 10" ...
AddItem("Weapon1345   - 20" ...

Does anybody wrote such code before, to measure the width of each font character to know how many white spaces we need to add to get correct position of 2-nd column for each separate line?

\t - tab is not working there. It has the same width as white space.

Of course, it's good to have opportunity to switch into monospace font,
but we have no such choise, AFAIK.

P.S. I don't know the name of menu items in advance, that's why I need to align that lines dynamically.
PPS. Personally, it's not hard for me to write such code, but how to measure precisely the width of each character?

Thanks, Alex.

[pride95]

You can align if your first column has numbers:

PHP Code:


char Buffer[];
Format(Buffer, sizeof(Buffer), "%09d   %s", int, char); 


you have an int with size 9. before numbers you have zeros.
000232324
000000001
000000233

etc.

[Dragokas]

It's not the case. Each digit has approximately the same width. I have no numbers. It's just an example.

Like, if you write 10 little L and 10 w, width will vary significantly:

llllllllll
wwwwwwwwww

[Neuro Toxin]

Have you tried \t ?

[Dragokas]

Yea, even several \t\t\t. It is displayed as usual white space. Always the same width.

Anyway, I followed in some way the idea of pride95 by reorganizing positions of my columns.
And rest column is absorbed by additional submenus.

I could write code to measure every char. width, but I prefer save my time.
Also, such code is superfluous load on CPU.