IWPTextCursor.InputTabstop

InputTabstop Method

[Top] [Chapter] [Previous] [Next]

Applies to

Declaration

procedure InputTabstop(ClearAllTabs: WordBool; Value: Integer; Kind: Integer; FillMode: Integer);

Description

This method creates a tab-stop and also inserts the tab character. It can optionally clear the existing tabstops. If you only want to define a tab-stop but do not need to insert the tab character use the method CurrPar.TabAdd.

Parameters

ClearAllTabs	True to clear tab list for current paragraph.
Value	Value of this tabstop (in twips=1/1440 inch)
Kind	The tabstop kind: 0 : Left tab 1 : Right tab 2 : Center tab 3 : Decimal tab
Fill	The fill mode used for this tabstop 0: No Filling 1: Dots ...... 2: Dots in middle of line 3: Hyphens ------ 4: Underline ______ 5: Thick Hyphen --------- 6: Equal Signs ======= 7: Arrow

This VB.NET example code inserts page numbering objects aligned at the right margin of the page. You can use it to add page numbers in a header or footer texts.

Dim Memo As IWPEditor

Memo = WpdllInt1.Memo

Dim TextCursor As IWPTextCursor

TextCursor = Memo.TextCursor

TextCursor.InputText(" Page ")

TextCursor.InputTabstop(False, _

Memo.PageSize.PageWidth - Memo.PageSize.LeftMargin - Memo.PageSize.RightMargin, _

1, 1)

TextCursor.InputObject(TextObjTypes.wpobjTextObject, "PAGE", "", 0)

TextCursor.InputText(" of ")

TextCursor.InputObject(TextObjTypes.wpobjTextObject, "NUMPAGES", "", 0)