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Modifying Text Boxes in Lineup Box()

SDF1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:14:23 GMT

Hello JSL'ers,

I'm trying to modify/edit some properties of text boxes, but not having much success.

Here are the results I get (filename is removed, but seems to set the width for the 2nd column, which is causing problems, I think):

And here are the results I want:

I want to:

1) Right justify "ID:".

2) Have custom widths for certain text boxes (like the "1" for ID should be a fixed width, say 10)

3) Same with the date field -- custom width.

But, the usual methods like <<Set Width(xxx) or <<Justify Text("Right") aren't working. Is it because I'm using a Lineup Box() around everything? I could probably do this manually with HList Box() and VList Box(), but I'd rather not.

Here's the code that I'm currently working on:

results = New Window( "Results",
		Outline Box( "results",
			H List Box(
				Outline Box( "Information",
					Lineup Box( N Col( 3 ), Spacing(0, 3 ),
						tb = Text Box( "<b>ID:</b>", <<Markup ),
						Spacer Box( Size( 5, 0 ) ),
						Text Box( Char( rep ), <<Set Width( 10 ), <<Background Color( 69 ) ),
						Text Box( "Raw File Name:", <<Justify Text( "Right" ) ),
						Spacer Box( Size( 5, 0 ) ),
						Text Box( filechosen[1], <<Background Color( 69 ) ),
						Text Box( "Date:", <<Justify Text( "Right" ) ),
						Spacer Box( Size( 5, 0 ) ),
						Text Box( testdate, <<Background Color( 69 ) )
						
					)
				),
				gb,
				Panel Box( "Action", V List Box( Button Box( "Save Results" ), Button Box( "Cancel", results << Close Window ) ) )
			)
		)
	);
	tb << Justify Text( "Right" );

Thanks for the help!,

Re: Modifying Text Boxes in Lineup Box()

jthi — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:33:46 GMT

The idea of lineup box is to remove "unnecessary" custom widths to fit your elements into columns. It will set the width them based on the highest width (unless you force it to use different width with lineup ruler box).

With the justify, I think the issues is that it doesn't work with <<Markup(1) properly.

Re: Modifying Text Boxes in Lineup Box()

SDF1 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:56:36 GMT

Hi @jthi ,

That's unfortunate about the <<Markup and <<Justify incompatibility. Upon further investigation, it turns out the Markup feature of JMP to interpret HTML-like code is limited to modification of text appearance like bold, italic, or underline, but not justification. Seems a bit strange to me, and one which could be updated in future versions.

The Lineup Ruler Box() is the way to go with making those custom widths -- while also allowing one to have nicely aligned columns using the Lineup Box() inside the Lineup Ruler Box().

As always, thanks for the help @jthi !

Thanks,
DS