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Objective Grid: Setting column widths based on string size

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Last updated: 11 Jun, 2018
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Posted: 23 Jan, 2001
by Meltreger B.
Updated: 11 Jun, 2018
by Meltreger B.

Problem

How do I set the column widths based on the size of my strings?

Cause

Action

You can call:

m_pGrid->SetColWidth(nCol, nCol, m_pGrid->Width_LPtoDP(nChars * GX_NXAVGWIDTH));

where nChars is the number of characters in the string and GX_NXAVGWIDTH is the average width of a character.

Another possibility is to override GetColWidth(). See gridapp/browsevw.cpp for an example.

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