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In article <1992Dec9.164450.6086@nntp.telxon.com> dgarr@nntp.telxon.com (David Garrison) writes:
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>HELP!!
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>I'm trying to use the tab stops bit in a drop down combo box
>just like a list box.
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>What I'm doing is setting the tab stop bit for my combo box on and
>adding strings to the box with '\t' characters.  I'm expecting to see
>the drop down box with aligned column string entries but all I get are 
>funny characters in place of the '\t' characters.
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>This same procedure works fine with a list box.
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>Does anyone know how to overcome this problem?  Thanx, in advance.
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	This problem was just discussed and answered in the past
	week or so.

	LBS_USETABSTOPS is for listboxes only - it will not work
	for comboboxes.  You can not use \t tab characters.
	Instead, use sprintf to format your strings with spaces
	between the items and in response to WM_INITDIALOG,
	send a message to the listbox to change the font from
	the default SYSTEM_FONT (proportional pitch) to 
	SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT (fixed pitch):
		SendDlgItemMessage(hdlg,ID_LISTBOX,WM_SETFONT,
		(WPARAM)GetStockObject(SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT),0);
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John A. Grant						jagrant@emr1.emr.ca
Airborne Geophysics
Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa