I'm trying to emulate the functionality of the Safari url text field (using NSTextField). I'd like the current text to be displayed centered, but when the user clicks on it the text should highlight and slide to the left. I've got the highlighting working but I'm not sure how to go about animating the text over to the left. Is it possible to animate the Alignment property or would I need to do some sort of custom drawing where I animate the position that the text is drawn?
Unfortunately this (Is there a way to animate changing a UILabel's textAlignment?) won't work, since a text field draws a background and border so animating the frame isn't an option.
I'm writing my Wix installer and encountered some UI issue.
I have a Dialog with a Text Control inside that attached to a Property and can contains different length of text in that Property.
The issue is that I set this Property with large width and height and depends on the text length it could be aligned correctly to the Width and Height of the Dialog or it could be on the top of the Dialog because it's only 2 words.
Medium text length:
Long text length
Same dialog but look funny at first image and not very clear and second image.
How can I align the text to be center whenever the text is not filling the whole Control?
I have recently started a new project in Visual Basic which requires me to have a Preferences box where a user can enter his own text which will display in a label on the main form of the application, once the user has clicked the apply button in the Preferences box.
Whenever I test it out, the label and/or the writing in it shifts over to the right or the left...
I have tried to anchor it to the sides or top but it doesn't work.
How do I set the label up so that the text, no matter how short, always perfectly aligns to the top middle of the application even when the text is then changed to a new one of a different length?
Just like clicking the label and selecting 'Format', then 'Center in Form', then click on 'Horizontally' in the Menu of Visual Basic. But instead of aligning text of new length manually, I want it to automatically do this whenever the user clicks the apply button in the Preferences.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Another possible solution would be to perhaps use a Textbox and set it to Read-Only.
Why?
Because the Textbox offers the TextAlign property:
Public Property TextAlign As HorizontalAlignment
Refer link
Change the TextAlign property of the label to TopCenter. Anchoring doesn't justify the text, but rather resizes the label control relative to the change in form dimensions.
Try setting the AutoSize property of your label to "False", then setting TextAlign property to "MiddleCenter" (or wherever it's supposed to align to). Then set the Anchor property to "Left, Right". This worked fine for me. If you need any more information, feel free to reply.
I'm using vb.net to make a screen saver.
I want my label where the text shows to always be centered no matter what screen size it is.
is there a way to get the screen resolution of the current monitor?
if i can get that then i can calculate the middle and set my label there.
Stretch the label to the whole width of the form and dock/anchor to left and right side within the label parameters. This will center your label whatever the size of the form.
in vb.net with developer express tools how do i set the text that will be displayed in the label control on my form should be displayed in the center from both sides horizontal and vertical?
The TextAlign property should be set to MiddleCenter.