[Gambas-user] problems with TextLables

[Benoit Minisini]

On Wednesday 29 December 2004 14:11, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> >On Tuesday 28 December 2004 23:39, Charlie Reinl wrote:
> >> Salut Benoit,
> >>
> >> I know it is 2 day before 1.0
> >> But I have problems with the TextLables (RC5)
> >>
> >> While trying to analyze the TextLable.Text I found that.
> >>
> >> How to handle '<'  and '>' , see example.(push Buttons)
> >>
> >> I wished I would have something like TextLable.TransformedText, which
> >> shows
> >>
> >> you the Text as it will displayed (without the format stuff)
> >>
> >> I need it for the attached ToolBox. To calculate the size off the
> >> TextLable.
> >>
> >> Amicalment
> >> Charlie
> >
> >If I understand well, you need a function to know the dimension of the
> >displayed HTML text. This is a problem in Qt :-)
>
> No not a Function, only the possibillity to get the Text who will displayed
> (without the HTML format stuff)
>
> like :
>  TextLabel.Text = "<B>TEXT</B>"
>  then:
>  Print TextLabel.DisplaydText
>
>  TEXT
>
> >You can try to put your text in a TextView, and use the TextWidth and
> >TextHeight properties. I'm not sure that it works in every case, because
> >these values seems to be calculated by Qt the later possible, i.e. when
> > the
> >
> >TextView had been displayed.
>
> That works well, but you have all the <B> etc. and so the result will be
> too big.
>

What do you mean ? It should return the width and height of the _displayed_ 
text. Not the dimension of the internal caption !

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Benoit Minisini
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