Auto space "tabs"?

[sackcreator54]

Hello, I am having an issue.

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This is what i'm trying to do. On the gray see through derma panel, I want to auto-position each tab automatically. This is my current positioning code.

		tabs = {"", "servers", "shop", "inventory", "stats", "scoreboard"}
		for k,v in pairs(tabs) do
			if k == 1 then
			else
				local realv = v
				local v = vgui.Create("DButton", hub)
				surface.SetFont("AgencyFB")
				local getvlength = tostring(realv)
				local strspacing = surface.GetTextSize( tabs[k - 1] )
				local realvlength = surface.GetTextSize( getvlength )
				print(tabs[k-1].. " " ..strspacing)
				v:SetPos(k*256 + strspacing, hub:GetTall() - hub:GetTall()/1.5)
				v:SetText("")
				v:SetSize(string.len(realv)*17, 100)
				v.Paint = function()
					draw.SimpleTextOutlined(string.upper(realv), "AgencyFB", 0, 0, Color(255, 255, 255, 175), TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT, TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT, 1, Color(91, 0, 117))
				end
				v.DoClick = function()
					opentab(realv)
				end
					hubopened = true
			end
		end
	end
end

At

				v:SetPos(k*256 + strspacing, hub:GetTall() - hub:GetTall()/1.5)

It "tries" to position the tabs. I want it to add to the default width the width of the string before it (to make up for long string lengths).

[brandonj4]

Do you want to make them evenly spaced across the width of the screen?

[sackcreator54]

[QUOTE=brandonj4;42473917]Do you want to make them evenly spaced across the width of the screen?[/QUOTE]

Yes, It's not supposed to be cut off. what my concept right now is getting the row's key from the loop, then multiplying that to get a base width between the two, then add the length of the previous (tabs[k - 1]), and add it to the base width, which should evenly distribute them.

[editline]10th October 2013[/editline]

Nevermind, decided to move to a DGrid, much easier and cleaner.