Right justify text in listbox

[foosion]

I'd like to display text in a listbox so that one part of the string is against the left margin and another is against the right margin.

As far as I can tell, listbox uses a variable width font, so that the simple method of inserting spaces in the middle of the string to push part of the string to the right will not work. It does not appear possible to change the font to a fixed width font (or to make any other changes to the font) without either rewriting listbox, creating a customized listbox on canvas or the like.

Is there a simpler way to put a part of a string against the right margin?

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Unfortunately no. Your only options are the ones you mentioned (rewriting Listbox/making a C++ extension or creating one on a canvas). There is an example of a listbox on canvas here, if it helps.

[foosion]

I can't get that CanvasListBox demo to run on 1.9.6 emulator running under winXP. It stops at the "fh =" line in check_default_values. A note statement right before it displays, then nothing. A note statement in the for loop just before never displays, which is not a good sign

Any ideas?

[croozeus]

I can't get that CanvasListBox demo to run on 1.9.6 emulator running under winXP. It stops at the "fh =" line in check_default_values. A note statement right before it displays, then nothing. A note statement in the for loop just before never displays, which is not a good sign

Any ideas?

From the same article,

The code was tested only in Nokia E71 and Python 1.4.5.

If you use 1.9.x, you might have to do some changes as it might not work out of the box.

[foosion]

It seems to work in 1.9.6 if you make the measure_text text string unicode

- fh = -(graphics.Image.new((1,1)).measure_text("[qg_|^y",font=self.attrs['font_name'])[0][1])

+ fh = -(graphics.Image.new((1,1)).measure_text(u"[qg_|^y",font=self.attrs['font_name'])[0][1])

[foosion]

However, as far as I can tell, pys60 does not offer a fixed width font. I tried every font in available_fonts and none were fixed width. Am I missing something?

This makes putting part of a string against the left margin and part against the right very difficult. The best I can think of is iteratively adding spaces in the middle of the string and measuring the coordinates of the right edge.

EDIT: http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.ph..._get_GDR_fonts may help