[Closed] system.windows.forms.textBox tab spacing?

Here is a site explaining it in VB but not quite sure how to get this to work in Max Script

http://www.devx.com/vb2themax/Tip/18611

Can any one convert it for me. I鈥檒l keep looking for a C# example as I understand that far better.

The RichTextBox class has a selectionTabs property that 鈥淕ets or sets the absolute tab stop positions in a RichTextBox control.鈥?/p>

Maybe that would help?

as usually if i can鈥檛 do anything using mxs i do it with c#

fn getTabStopClass = 
(
	source = ""
	source += "using System;
"
	source += "using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
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	source += "using System.Windows.Forms;
"
	source += "class TabStops
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	source += "{
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	source += "	private const int EM_SETTABSTOPS = 0x00CB;
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	source += "	[DllImport(\"User32.dll\", CharSet = CharSet.Auto)]
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	source += "	public static extern IntPtr SendMessage(IntPtr h, int msg, int wParam, int[] lParam);
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	source += "	public static void SetTextBoxTabWidth(TextBox textbox, int tabWidth)
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	source += "	{
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	source += "		int[] stops = new int[] { tabWidth };
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	source += "		SendMessage(textbox.Handle, EM_SETTABSTOPS, 1, stops);
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	source += "	}
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	source += "}
"

	-- Compile on fly
	csharpProvider = dotnetobject "Microsoft.CSharp.CSharpCodeProvider"
	compilerParams = dotnetobject "System.CodeDom.Compiler.CompilerParameters"
	compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.dll");
	compilerParams.ReferencedAssemblies.Add("System.Windows.Forms.dll");

	compilerParams.GenerateInMemory = on
	compilerResults = csharpProvider.CompileAssemblyFromSource compilerParams #(source)

	output = compilerResults.CompiledAssembly.CreateInstance "TabStops"
)

tabstopclass = getTabStopClass()
/*
using:
tabstopclass.SetTextBoxTabWidth <textbox> <tabwidth in dialog template units>
tabstopclass.SetTextBoxTabWidth mytbox 10
*/

for dialog box units check:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms645475(VS.85).aspx

RichTextBox is the solution. In all my new tools I use rich text instead of text box.

but my c# code is very easy to change to support ListView tab width, or combobox for example.

Denis gets the prize. I couldn鈥檛 get the selectionTabs property to do anything at all. And I couldn鈥檛 find any decent examples again on how it is supposed to work. Not much about it at MSDN either.

Thanks Denis.