Tabbed display in "Additional Information" box

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In the "Read to Install" dialog, I'm using the "Additional Information
Variable" and suppressing the internally gathered settings. I'm using
the pipe | symbol to do line breaks:

|First:| C:\Whatever|Second:| C:\Another|Third:| C:\Something Else|

It appears like this:

First:
C:\Whatever
Second:
C:\Another
Third:
C:\Something Else

However, I would like to use a tabbed display instead:

First: C:\Whatever
Second: C:\Another
Third: C:\Something Else

If this was the Clarion MESSAGE box, I would just do this:

|First:<9>C:\Whatever|Second:<9>C:\Another|Third:<9>C:\Something Else|

I've tried <9> and \t, without success. Is this a pipedream? <g>

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net

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Hi Mike,

> However, I would like to use a tabbed display instead:
>
> First: C:\Whatever
> Second: C:\Another
> Third: C:\Something Else

The following should do it:

|First: %FIRST%|Second: %SECOND%|Third: %THIRD%

See attached screensot.

Does this work?

Friedrich

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Sorry, it looks like my nicely aligned (tabbed) example didn't come
through in your newsreader. I was wanting the values to be aligned,
so the eye can scan smoothly down the list. I could approximate this
with spaces, but it would still be jagged. Yes, I'm too picky
sometimes. <g>

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net

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Hi Mike,

Aha, okay. I see <g>.

The list in the "Ready to Install" dialog is a standard Windows list
control. I "think" that tabs are not supported in this list control.

Friedrich

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Yes, I noticed the scrolling highlighter bar after posting my original
message. Is there any reason you didn't use a readonly TEXT control?

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net

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Hi Mike,

> Yes, I noticed the scrolling highlighter bar after posting my original
> message. Is there any reason you didn't use a readonly TEXT control?

The "Ready to Install" dialog is a list control in all installation programs
(including Microsoft .msi).

Perhaps I can add a "\t" macro and then you can use this to create your own
custom dialog and add a TEXT control to it for your "Ready to Install". But
the "grayed" read-only EDIT control with popup menu will look and feel a bit
"non-standard" (IMO).

Friedrich

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I doubt that the scrolling list nature of that particular installing
window is recognized as "standard behavior" by many users.

Regardless, don't put much more thought into it. It's really not that
important to me. <g>

Mike Hanson
www.boxsoft.net