which font has same width?

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I want to alignment the text output. Some font(arial,
Time New Roman, etc.) characters do not have the same
width. Could anyone tell me which font has same width?

Thanks.
 
Kathy,

I thought that the character blank was in all fonts equal.

But take a look at "graphics measurestring" in/on MSDN, I think that will
help you better than my message above

Cor
 
kathy said:
I want to alignment the text output. Some font(arial,
Time New Roman, etc.) characters do not have the same
width. Could anyone tell me which font has same width?
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Kathy: The days of fixed-width fonts generally ended with DOS (and
dot-matrix printers.) There still are some available but they aren't used
in Windows very much... most of the fonts are proportionally spaced.
 
kathy said:
I want to alignment the text output. Some font(arial,
Time New Roman, etc.) characters do not have the same
width. Could anyone tell me which font has same width?
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Courier New
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
Do you use a fixed-width font in your VS.NET code editor? Most code
editors use fixed-width fonts, many newsreaders too.
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I use whatever font is the default. Perhaps I don't understand your
question.
 
Herfried K. Wagner said:
You said:

<quote
There still are some available but they aren't used
in Windows very much...
</quote>
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Okay... I didn't count on Visual Studio's editor and many newsreaders. I'd
guess most to all newsreaders if you don't choose HTML format however.
Text-based e-mail also.
My message was not criticism, I only wanted to add that the use of fixed-width
fonts still makes sense in some cases.
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It makes a lot of sense in some cases. What font do you normally use on
your VB.Net forms? I didn't think the original poster was having trouble
lining up the code in her editor. But of course I could be wrong.

<quote
There still are some available but they aren't used
in Windows <insert applications insert /> very much...
</quote>
 
* "Tom Leylan said:
Okay... I didn't count on Visual Studio's editor and many newsreaders. I'd
guess most to all newsreaders if you don't choose HTML format however.
Text-based e-mail also.
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You were right -- VS.NET is not part of Windows.

:-)
It makes a lot of sense in some cases. What font do you normally use on
your VB.Net forms? I didn't think the original poster was having trouble
lining up the code in her editor. But of course I could be wrong.
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It depends on the type of application the OP wants to build. It
depends, on what he/she wants to implement. If it should be a little
text editor like notepad (for learning purposes), a fixed-width font for
the editor would be nice (+ the option to choose the font).
<quote
There still are some available but they aren't used
in Windows <insert applications insert /> very much...
</quote>
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;-)

--
Herfried K. Wagner
MVP · VB Classic, VB.NET
<http://www.mvps.org/dotnet>

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Herfried K. Wagner said:
It depends on the type of application the OP wants to build. It
depends, on what he/she wants to implement. If it should be a little
text editor like notepad (for learning purposes), a fixed-width font for
the editor would be nice (+ the option to choose the font).
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I see now she was asking about "text output" I missed that part. Seems like
it might be for a report.
 
Kathy,
If you want to avoid hard coding the font name to the ones that Armin, Rick,
& Herfried listed, you can use the FontFamily.GenericMonospace property to
the Font constructor.

Dim myFont as New Font(FontFamily.GenericMonospace, 12)

Will create a 12 point Courier New font on most systems, on systems where
Courier New is not installed it will select a different fixed width font. Or
fail if there are no fixed width fonts.

You can also use FontFamily.GenericSansSerif & FontFamily.GenericSerif to
avoid hard coding Arial & Times New Roman fonts.

Hope this helps
Jay
 
FontFamily.GenericMonospace property to
the Font constructor.

Dim myFont as New Font(FontFamily.GenericMonospace,
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12)

This is a great answer. Consider it in my bag of
tricks. :)

Thanks Jay,
Joe
~ Waiting and hoping the 3 day turnaround is true. The
14th is day 4... MS touts this, I'm waiting to see for
myself.
 
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