ListBox right-justify

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Desktop project on Windows 10

I want to show the right-most characters of a column in a list box. Right-justify works as expected when the column is wide enough to contain all the test. But when the column is too narrow, I want to see the right-most characters. Setting the column or cell to right justified doesn’t do this - when the data exceeds the space it shows the left-most characters that will fit.

Works the same way with ListBox and DesktopListBox. Bug with right justify, or supposed to work this way? Another way to do this? Thanks.

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using the celltextpaint event you can display whatever you want in a listbox cell.

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Or, I believe you can use the ActiveTextControl property and set its alignment property.

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Thanks Jean-Yves and James for the suggestions. On further thought, the reason I want to see the right-most characters is because all the strings begin the same. They’re URLs for images, so they all begin https://mydomain.com/images/. Better architecture is to store the URL separately from the file name. This allows storing images in different folders if we get too many to keep in a single folder. And the relevant part is really the file name, so I’ll just show that in the list box.

Still not sure if right-justify is doing the right thing, but doesn’t matter at this point for this app.

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