Suggestions - Aligning part of string to left and other part to right

rbuser

I need suggestions on how to solve this problem. I am printing labels
that show a list of ingredients like this:

Ingredient1 10%
Other Ingredients 90%

I need to be able to left align the ingredient part and right align the
% part. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

Thanks,

David

nicocizik

Hi David,

You will need to split each ingredient into two parts (or two strings),
then place one in a left aligned label, and the other in a right aligned
label on the report.

Your best bet would be to find the position of the right-most space
character then split the strings into two there. This could be done
fairly easily using the Pos and Copy Delphi routines.

rbuser

Hi Nico,

I figured out that part, but if the ingredient is forced to wrap, I need
to force an extra line in the second list, to make sure the % is lined
up with the bottom line of the ingredient. I'm looking at using
Canvas.TextWidth procedure, but RB doesn't like it.

Any ideas for that?

nicocizik

Hi David,

When using Canvas.TextWidth, the result will use the units of the
canvas. For instance, if you create a TBitmap and use its Canvas, you
will be measuring text in screen pixels.

ReportBuilder uses the report units defined by the Report.Units
property. When using measurements, you need to be sure you convert the
results accordingly. Take a look at the ppUtils.pas file for some
useful conversion utilities.