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Areeb
Areeb

Reputation: 211

How do I justify strings in a listbox?

I am binding values to list box but string not showing in proper format.

ex my strings like 

abc               10
abcd              20
asdfas            30

I made fixed length to first string that is 30 using padding

str1.PadRight(30) + str2.PadRight(2)

then also I am getting values like that

abc     10
abcd        20
asdfas            30

Please suggest how can I put same space between string

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1838

Answers (3)

Mizipzor
Mizipzor

Reputation: 52371

I would create a ViewModel wrapping the text and a number:

class MyViewModel
{
    public string Text { get; set; }
    public int Number { get; set; }
}

Then give the ListBox an ItemTemplate that does the layout:

<ListBox>
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <DockPanel>
                <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Left"
                           Text="{Binding Text}"/>
                <TextBlock DockPanel.Dock="Right"
                           Text="{Binding Number}"/>
            </DockPanel>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

Upvotes: 0

Roger Lipscombe
Roger Lipscombe

Reputation: 91845

Windows Forms ListBox supports multiple columns. There's an example right there in the documentation for the constructor.

Although this might not work with data binding. In which case, you'll probably need to use a ListView instead.

Upvotes: 0

Jason Williams
Jason Williams

Reputation: 57902

The Windows User Interface usually uses a variable-width font, so you can't just pad with spaces to a given column to get the text to line up.

You will either need to set the ListBox to use a monospaced font (Courier or Lucida Console for example), use a ListView (or similar) that supports columns, or implement owner-drawn items so that you can control how the items are displayed, splitting up the text to drawing it in columns.

Upvotes: 2

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