On Sun, Nov 27, 2022 at 5:06 AM wkitty42--- via lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On 11/26/22 8:24 PM, Aruna Hewapathirane via lazarus wrote: > > After asking for help on the Lazarus forum I twiddled with the font > size and > > then it displayed the tree lines perfectly but I would like to know if > there is > > a way to do this using a TListView without having to be stuck with a > Monospace > > font and a specific font size? > > no, there is not really any way to do this without using a monospace > font... > terminals are monospace by design... their resolutions are represented by > the > cols*rows of their characters... eg: 80*24, 80*43, 132*24, 132*43... > Oh I miss those days... DOS and Clipper 5.3 and VGA monitors that had a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 px and tape drives. > > each character is in a cell that has a fixed width and height... some > common > cell sizes are 9*12, 9*14, 9*16, 6*12... these are not pixels, though... > pixels > were not a thing when these were designed... they are basically dots in a > raster > cell... these cells are what are counted for terminal resolutions because > each > cell holds one character and terminals are character based, not pixel > based... > You know I was just thinking with support like this you just cannot go wrong :-) > > not only do you have the vertical spacing but also the horizontal... note > in > your image that your column spacing is off so that needs to be fixed, > too... > note how your proportional spacing image cannot properly align the columns > of > information... FSTYPE, FSVER, LABEL, UUID, FSAVAIL, FSUSE%, and > MOUNTPOINT... > Yes, that was actually fixed when I started using the Monospace font. > > if you are going to replicate the output of a terminal on a graphic > canvas, > monospace fonts are the best and easiest way... especially if you are > going to > easily deal with tabular output and column alignment... this because you > don't > have to do any extra work to get everything aligned properly... > Very true and thank you I had to find this out the hard way :-) > > then there's the aesthetics... personally speaking, seeing, for example, > the > UUID column in proportional font would drive me bananananananananas... > columnar/tabular data is meant to be displayed in a fixed width format... > proportional fonts simply cannot properly do that... > Yes, very true and agreed. Thank you wkitty42. Aruna > > -- > NOTE: No off-list assistance is given without prior approval. > *Please keep mailing list traffic on the list where it belongs!* > -- > _______________________________________________ > lazarus mailing list > lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org > https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus >
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