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imohamed
2014-03-17T21:38:23Z
Does anyone have any examples or less technical instructions on how to use the igTextTabStop enumeration?
I am trying to set some tab stops in my grouping rows but I'm having trouble, mostly because I do not understand how this enumeration works.

The manual says:
Quote:

Sets tab stops. Bits 15-8 (high-order byte of the low-order word) of a text format flags combination specify the number of characters for each tab. The default number of characters per tab is eight. For instance, you must use the following flags to set the number of characters per tab to ten:
igTextExpandTabs Or igTextTabStop Or &HA00



I wanted to set the tab stops to 20 so I tried this:
igTextExpandTabs Or igTextTabStop Or &H140

I thought this would work since Hex A = Dec 10 and Hex 14 = Dec 20
But it seemed that the tab stops got smaller instead of bigger.


Thanks
Imran
Igor/10Tec
2014-03-18T15:18:54Z
Originally Posted by: imohamed 

I wanted to set the tab stops to 20 so I tried this:
igTextExpandTabs Or igTextTabStop Or &H140



The phrase "high-order byte of the low-order word" means that the numeric constant you are using in the aforementioned flag combination should use the mask "&HXX00", in which you can place hex numbers instead of "XX". For your case, 20 is &H14, and the whole expression should look like this:

igTextExpandTabs Or igTextTabStop Or &H1400
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