Re^3: Textview format, help please !

Maybe you've had a long day, but I gave Text::Table a try and got good results. Try this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Text::Table;

my $tb = Text::Table->new(
         "ID", "DESCRIPTION", "QTY", "PRICE"
);
$tb->load(
        [ "1 los", "LABOR ON PARTS", 1, '760.00' ],
        [ "2 sa", "STRIP", 1, '450.00' ],
        [ "3 av", "VALUE", 1, '2000.00' ],
);
print $tb;
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Re^4: Textview format, help please ! by peokai (Novice) on Jul 22, 2010 at 12:07 UTC
That works, partially, the problem is it prints out the table as it should be in the cmd window, but the same text in the textview are scrambled :(	[reply]
Re^5: Textview format, help please ! by roboticus (Chancellor) on Jul 22, 2010 at 16:13 UTC
peokai: I don't use Tk, Glade, Gtk, et. al., so this is just a wild guess. You've probably already considered this, but just on the chance that you didn't: Are you using a proportional font in our text window? A proportional font causes just the symptom you're describing because each letter may have a different width on the screen. Using a monospaced font (Courier, for instance) would fix the problem if that's the case. ...roboticus	[reply]