Tabular printing on the mainwin

[pierre]

Tab(n) printing on the mainwin does not work properly in LB5 alpha.

Instead of printing on the (n-th) column of the mainwin, as it does correctly in LB 4.5.1,
Tab(n) prints (n) columns after the last preceeding character, which results in an unordered representation.

code:

print "FirstName"; tab(15); "LastName"; tab(30); "Age"
print "John"; tab(15); "Doe"; tab(30); 25


output in LB 4.5.1 :

FirstName     LastName       Age
John             Doe               25

output in LB 5 alpha :

FirstName              LastName                             Age
John               Doe                              25

[honky]


   for x=1 to n
     if nom$(x)="" then [passfora]
     nom1$=word$(nom$(x),1): w1$=word$(nom$(x),2): c1$=word$(nom$(x),3): s1$=word$(nom$(x),4)
     dl$=word$(nom$(x),5): nl$=word$(nom$(x),6): a1$=word$(nom$(x),7)': a2$=word$(nom$(x),8)
     nom$(x) = nom1$ + space$(25-len(nom1$)) +_
      w1$ + space$(15-len(w1$))+_
      c1$ + space$(13-len(c1$))+_
      s1$ + space$(10-len(s1$)) +_
      dl$ +space$(10-len(dl$))+_
      nl$ + space$(10-len(nl$))+ _
      a1$ +space$(10-len(a1$))' + _
      ' a2$+space$(12-len(a2$))
 [passfora]
   next x


[pierre]

Yes, that is a good idea for a workaround.  Applying it to my example,  it gives:

'**************************************

title$ = "FirstName,LastName,Age" : print title$
title1$ = word$(title$,1,",")
title2$ = word$(title$,2,",")
title3$ = word$(title$,3,",")

name$ = "John,Doe,25" : print name$
name1$ = word$(name$,1,",")
name2$ = word$(name$,2,",")
name3$ = word$(name$,3,",")

print
print "tabular printing :"
print

print title1$ + space$(15 - len(title1$)); title2$ + space$(15 - len(title2$)); title3$

print name1$ + space$(15 - len(name1$)); name2$ + space$(15 - len(name2$)); name3$

'****************************************

But  what I  wanted to point out is that LB has a specific Tab(n) function, and that  function does not work correctly in LB5 alpha.



pierre