Non-printable characters in Textboxes?

[SciAuto]

Hello-

  Is it possible to have non-printable characters in textboxes?  In particular, horizontal tabs.  I've tried the usual "\t" code to no avail (it displays a printable character that looks like a small box rather than a  tab), and I've tried the CVI-specfic codes that are referenced in the help documentation for listboxes ("\033vline", stuff like that).  I've switched fonts (between true-type and the System font, to no avail).

  I have periodic messages that I'd like to send to the textbox, separated visually into columns.  I would rather not use a Table-type control because each message line is vastly different and the overhead with Tables is not convenient.  If I could just get tabs to work in a textbox...

Thanks, anybody!

[Wendy L]

Hello SciAuto,

Currently tab characters are not supported in the CVI textbox, but a product suggestion has been filed on this issue.  The easiest way to simulate a tab character would be to force the whitespace characters to be manually in the string instead of the \t character as mentioned in the following forum post.

Thanks.