Calculate the space needed

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi, ALL,
Let's say I have a wxTextCtrl.
I also have a text in a form of:

SELECT "a"."x", "b"."y" FROM "a", "b" WHERE "a".id" = "b"."id";

What I'd like to do is to display that string in that text control as:

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SELECT "a"."x",
             "b"."y"
FROM "a",
          "b"
WHERE "a"."id" = "b"."id;

I need a string "b"."y" to be exactly under "a"."x" (unfortunately the formatting is not preserved).

For that I need to calculate the number of spaces I need to add in order to format the string nicely.

What is the best way of doing it?

Or maybe there is a better way?

Thank you.

[Kvaz1r]

First of all you should use monospace font and after that just find length of "SELECT " for second line and "FROM " for forth line. Am I understood you correct?

[ONEEYEMAN]

Hi,
Which fonts are monospace?
How to identify that the font is monospace?
And what do you mean - "identify the length"?

Thank you.

[alys666]

read about wxFont and search around <wxFONTFAMILY_TELETYPE>

[ONEEYEMAN]

Thank you guys.
Works as expected.