How to Right Justify/Center Text in Single-Line Text Control

• Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for Windows, version 3.0
• Standard, Professional, and Enterprise Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic, for Windows, version 4.0,

SUMMARY

To center or right justify (align) the text in a text control that contains a single line of text, set the multiline property to True and the Alignment property to the desired value. Then trap the KeyPress event and use the multiline and MaxLength properties to trap the carriage return and convert it to another character.

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Step-by-Step Example to Demonstrate a Right-Justified Text Control

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add a text control (Text1) to Form1. Set its Alignment property to 1 - Right Justify. Set the Multiline property to True. Set the MaxLength property to some arbitrary value equal to the width of the text box in characters (15). Be sure to make the text control s height property large enough to display the first line of text. The actual height of the text box may need to be a little bigger than normal.

3. Add the following code to the KeyPress event procedure of Text1:

      '============== Form1.frm ==================
   
      Sub Text1_KeyPress (KeyAscii As Integer)
         If KeyAscii = 13 Then
            KeyAscii = 7            ' Beep - no effect on text
         End If
      End Sub
   
   

   Sub Form_Load()
      Dim boxht as Double
      boxht = Text1.Height
      Text1.Height = Text1.Height * 2
      'This is to make sure the text will appear in the box
      Text1.Height = boxht
   End Sub