the option 'calign' does not work with '#draw grid table'

[peddn]

Hello,

when I draw a table with the command '#draw calign grid table', it seems that the option 'calign' is no longer taken into account. Here is an example:

#draw calign grid table {2} {2} {8} {42} {n;s;w;e} {n;s;w;e}; produces:

┌─────────┬─────────┬─────────┬─────────┐
│n        │s        │w        │e        │
│         │         │         │         │
├─────────┼─────────┼─────────┼─────────┤
│n        │s        │w        │e        │
│         │         │         │         │
└─────────┴─────────┴─────────┴─────────┘

#draw calign table {2} {2} {8} {42} {n;s;w;e} {n;s;w;e}; produces:

┌────────┐┌────────┐┌────────┐┌────────┐
│   n    ││   s    ││   w    ││   e    │
└────────┘└────────┘└────────┘└────────┘
┌────────┐┌────────┐┌────────┐┌────────┐
│   n    ││   s    ││   w    ││   e    │
└────────┘└────────┘└────────┘└────────┘

I also noticed that the tables are different heights.

I am new to TinTin++ and it is quite possible that I am just using the command incorrectly. I would be very grateful for any help.

[scandum]

Hi there,

The grid table code could definitely use some more work. I've added calign to my todo list, but due to complexities involved it may not be an easy fix.

I don't think there's a good solution for the height difference?

[peddn]

If you think about it more closely, this is certainly not a trivial problem. It would be great to have the grid table with centered text.

My first attempt for a workaround was to add the leading and trailing spaces to the string for the cell content, but it seems that these spaces are automatically removed. So now I just use '#draw calign line' for the cell contents and hard-code the positions and width.

Regarding the height of the tables, I couldn't think of a reasonable solution to make sure that both table types have the same height. After thinking about it for a while, I'm also not sure whether this feature is needed at all...

I would also like to take this opportunity to express my thanks for such wonderful open source software. Please keep up the great work.

[scandum]

I initially thought it was part of the grid code being a bit quirky, but this actually turned out to be a bug that was easy to fix. Tintin was accidentally removing the calign flag in the grid code.

Centering and a few other formatting options should now work in the beta source code:

https://mudhalla.net/tintin-beta.tar.gz