I have content of 50-60 words in label and it goes beyond my groupbox where I put it, so I need to wrap it so it can be accommodate within groupbox.
Just Set the AutoSize property of the label to False, then reposition then label to the size you need
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The best way to describe the problem is trough the following image
It's very anti-estetic, can i limit the width of the label box, while forcing the text to spread in lines below?
Yes you have to set the Autosize property of the RadioButton to false and resize the control. The text will spread over multiple lines.
Alternatively you can insert "\n" in the text - works only at run-time
How can I change the font size of a TextBox but keep the TextBox height?
At the moment each time I try to change the font size the TextBox height re-sizes based on the font size, I sort of got it to work by changing the TextBox to multiline but only want a single line Textbox.
The textbox control has a hidden AutoSize property which can be disabled
textBox1.AutoSize = False
textBox1.Height = 50
which I added to foo_load, you do end up with a large box and small font and looks a little odd due to textbox not having any padding property but this can be rectified by putting a panel behind it and positioning the textbox just inside.
In WinForms you can set the MinimumSize and/or the MaximumSize properties of the TextBox in order to override the automatic adjustment of the TextBox height, when the font height changes.
Note that setting the minimum and maximum size does not change the TextBox size immediately. But when you change the width of the TextBox in the form designer, its height will be changed to be within the specified limits.
I'm creating a label dynamically, and then adding text to it dynamically (and the amount of text added to it will be different each time). So, the label needs to always be the same width as the text inside it.
This happens by default when creating a label in the Windows Designer. But when creating a label dynamically, it appears to be "set" at a specific width, regardless of how much text is in it (which means that it often "cuts off" some of the text).
So... any idea how I can get the dynamically created label to always stay the same width as the text inside it?
If you want to do it manually, you can do something like this, every time you change the text:
Dim g As Graphics = Label1.CreateGraphics()
Label1.Width = CInt(g.MeasureString(Label1.Text, Label1.Font).Width)
However, it's much easier to simply set the label's AutoSize property to True and let the label do the work for you.
Label1.AutoSize = True
Hi I have a button which will add a string in to a label. (this can be done multiple times.) As the user can add multiple strings with each one been a different length, is there anyway I can get it to find the length of the label and those around it so that it spaces out correctly?
Thanks
Label.Width will return the current width of the label control, but it sounds like you already know this. Since the label can be narrower than the text it is trying to display, you would need to measure the full text using the graphics object. This method will return the width of the text in a label:
Private Function getFullTextWidth(lbl As Label)
Using g As Graphics = Label1.CreateGraphics()
Return g.MeasureText(Label1.Text, Label1.Font).Width
End Using
End Function
Alternatively, you could just set the label's AutoSize property to true, and then just check the label's Width property after you set the Text.
I'm trying to use a TableLayoutPanel to align a few controls on a form next to their labels like so:
Label1 [combobox ]
LongerLabel [longer combobox]
But when I run the project and grab the right hand side of the form and shrink the form, the combobox doesn't resize, it gets cut off... Now, I were to not use the TableLayoutPanel, but just anchor a combobox to a form's edges, it will resize properly. What am I doing wrong with the TableLayoutPanel?
I found the answer here:
http://www.tech-archive.net/Archive/DotNet/microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.windowsforms.controls/2006-12/msg00209.html
So I set the first column with the label to autosize (I have the label fill docked in the cell and the text alignment set to middle left). Then dock fill the combobox in the second column. Then, set the second column's size type to 100%, NOT autosize. I don't know why it works, but it does.