Hi friendly folks! I'm writing a small app for a friend in Gtk2(Glade3) and Perl to proccess new quotes for his company, as I have little experience in Gtk2 I've hit a pothole and now seek wisdom from you! Right, so I have a textview in my gui, along with a bunch of text entries, someone inputs text into the entries, and with the click of a button they get added to the textview, the problem now is the formatting of the textview looks a bit moot, and I was wondering how to format the textview like a printf type, so that the spaces between the values looks better. An example: 
# ID  DESCRITPION           QTY        PRICE
      1 los LABOUR ON PARTS         1        760.00
      2 sa     STRIP            1        450.00
      3 av  ANOTHER VALUE HERE       1          2000.00

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The current code I use to insert the text into the textview is: 
$buffer_1->insert($buffer_1->get_end_iter(),"$linenum 
$kode\t$waarde\t\t\t\t$entry_qty\t\t\t\tR$entry_price\n");

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That is sort off what it currently looks like in the textview (I simply seperated the values with tabs), I need everything to be inserted with the same ammount of spaces between, like: 
# ID    DESCRITPION             QTY      PRICE
 1 los  LABOUR ON PARTS         1        760.00
 2 sa   STRIP                   1        450.00
 3 av   ANOTHER VALUE HERE      1        2000.00

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Muhc like printf(%-33s....etc). Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated

In reply to Textview format, help please ! by peokai

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