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Is there a way to Center Justify a NumberColBox?

nikles — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 18:11:03 GMT

Hi. I'm wondering if there's a way to center justify the values in a NumberColBox. I have a GUI and it would help make things more readable to the user if all my columns were center justified. I can center justify strings in a StringColBox using << Set Justify(center), but I see no corresponding option for a NumberColBox. I'm aware I could convert all my numeric values to text and use a StringColBox instead, but I was hoping a more elegant solution might exist.

Thanks.

JMP Pro 15.2.1

macOS Big Sur 11.6.2

Re: Is there a way to Center Justify a NumberColBox?

txnelson — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 19:44:00 GMT

The Script Editor is the definitive documentation for the messages and options available to the NumberColBox and I do not see a message or option that will set the justification. I have used your stated work around, converting to a string, many times, and find that it works well.

Re: Is there a way to Center Justify a NumberColBox?

nikles — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 21:48:31 GMT

Thanks Jim. I was curious though, how do you convert a vector of numbers to a list of strings? E.g. [1, 2, 3] --> {"1", "2", "3"}. Is there a way to do this without using a for loop?

Re: Is there a way to Center Justify a NumberColBox?

txnelson — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 23:24:30 GMT

I typically don't do a mass conversion. I do the conversion as I let the Text Box() or Text Edit Box do the automatic conversion for me

x = [1, 2, 3];
tb = Text Edit Box( x[2] );
Show( tb << get text );