Formatting & Justifying Text in Table Cell

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JLuckey
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Formatting & Justifying Text in Table Cell

Post by JLuckey »

Sergey,

I need to write text to a table cell in a TRichView. Each word in the text may have special formatting like bold and or italic. Then I need to write the whole text to a table cell with either left, center, or right justification.

The code snippet below formats each word of the text OK, but I can't get the justification to do what I want.

If I change the third param of AddTextNL to something other than -1, I get the words on new lines. The fourth param doesn't seem have any effect on horizontal alignment.

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Procedure TPgraph.WriteToCell(rtfTableIn: TRVTableItemInfo; iCellRow, iCellCol: Integer);
Var
  i, iRTFStyleNum, KludgeVar: Integer;

begin
  rtfTableIn.Cells[iCellRow, iCellCol].Clear;
  For i := 0 to FTextList.Count - 1 Do Begin
    If TStyleAndText(FTextList[i]).text <> '' Then Begin
      iRTFStyleNum := GetTextStyle(SSVal, TStyleAndText(FTextList[i]).Style);
      rtfTableIn.Cells[iCellRow, iCellCol].AddTextNL(TStyleAndText(FTextList[i]).text, iRTFStyleNum, -1, 17);
    End;  {If}
  End;  {For}

  FTextList.Clear;

End;   {WriteToCell}
What is the best way to do what I need?

Thanks,[/code]
Sergey Tkachenko
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Post by Sergey Tkachenko »

The third parameter really defines the paragraph style. You should set it to the index of the paragraph style for the first text item added in the cell, and -1 for others (if you want them to continue the paragraph).

Specifying -1 for the first item in cell/document is a mistake (because the first item cannot continue paragraph), but it is automatically corrected by TRichView (the 0-th paragraph style is used).

As for the last parameter, it defines the paragraph style for the second and other paragraphs added by AddTextNL, if text contains line break characters.
JLuckey
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Post by JLuckey »

Sergey,

Thanks for the insight. It works perfectly!
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