ColumnMapper

[Edwin Knoppert]

ColumnMapper is a custom control soon to be found in the PwrDev designer.
For now i make it public in executable form and is used to manually determine the columns for fixed files.

I ever posted a similar tool called matchmaker but this week i rewrote it entirly and is now handled via a com interface.

Please test

http://www.hellobasic.com/download/columnmapper.zip

Run the application, select open from the menu and choose a textfile.
On the ruler you determine the columns.
Menu item positions returns the positions.
Use Ctrl+C to obtain the positions from the msgbox.

[Michael Mattias]

Ok, I tested it. Near as I can tell all it does is mark column positions and will give you back a table of same.

I hope you are not looking at this as a big moneymaker, because I did the same thing with a standard listview control and a little WM_NOTIFY/NM_CUSTOMDRAW code.

(Ok, so getting the horizontal scroll to work correctly is a dog of a job).

(But my column marker is drawn in RED!)

[Edwin Knoppert]

In the mean time i replaced with a newer version.
It fails on the lengths returned (positions).
I have to fix that tomorrow before permanent implementation.

This is not ment to be a money maker but i used a similar control for years for our importmodule regarding fixed files, i would not like to go without such a tool.
I am sure almost none of the PwrDev users will ever use it.. except me.
What do i care

The listview is not that difficult, i have a grid based on a LV and i know the horizontal scrolling/drawing issues.
If i ever encounter a problem with the listbox i'll make the move.
It's not it's purpose to parse all lines, it has now the capacity of MAXWORD so that is good enough for 99.9% of the cases (if not 100%).

All colors can be set but just not in this test executable.