How To Right Justify/Center Text in Single-Line Text Control

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Step-by-Step Example to Demonstrate a Right-Justified Text Control

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N) if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.
2. Add a text control (Text1) to Form1. Set its Alignment property to 1 - Right Justify. Set the Multiline property to True. Set the MaxLength property to some arbitrary value equal to the width of the text box in characters (15). Be sure to make the text control[ASCII 146]s height property large enough to display the first line of text. The actual height of the text box may need to be a little bigger than normal.
3. Add the following code to the KeyPress event procedure of Text1:

         Sub Text1_KeyPress (KeyAscii As Integer)
            If KeyAscii = 13 Then
               KeyAscii = 7            ' Beep - no effect on text
            End If
         End Sub
   
   						

   Add the following code to the Load event procedure of Form1:

         Sub Form_Load()
            Dim boxht as Double
            boxht = Text1.Height
            Text1.Height = Text1.Height * 2
            'This is to make sure the text will appear in the box
            Text1.Height = boxht
         End Sub
   
   						

4. From the Run menu, choose Start (ALT, R, S) to run the program. Type text into the text control, and press the ENTER key. The keystroke is trapped, and the text does not change.