[Gambas-user] Re: TextLabel misbehaving inside ScrollView.

[Jose J. Rodriguez]

On 5/6/06, Benoit Minisini <gambas at ...1...> wrote:
> On Saturday 06 May 2006 03:33, Jose J. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On 5/4/06, Jose J. Rodriguez <joe1962 at ...626...> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get a vertically scrollable TextLabel by embedding it
> > > inside a ScrollView, but when I set Textlabel.Autoresize to True, it
> > > becomes wider than the client area of the ScrollView, in fact, wider
> > > than the ScrollView control itself, as I can see if I activate both
> > > scrollbars. It doesn't matter if I set the TextLabel to Expand or not,
> > > nor does it matter which Arrangement I set for the ScrollView. If I
> > > manually set the width to Scroll.ClientWidth, I lose text at the
> > > bottom of the TextLabel. The ScrollView has Expand = True, in case
> > > this has anything to do with it.
> > >
> > > This is in Gambas 1.9.29.
> >
> > Still getting nowhere with this. I'd really appreciate a solution,
> > workaround (like how to know the height of the TextLabel needed to fit
> > the text, etc) or at least acknowledgement of the problem, as I'm sort
> > of stuck at this point on the installer project. The full blown html
> > component is not feasable for this, as it means adding another
> > component and also reduces the possibility if porting to the gtk
> > component later.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Joe1962
> >
>
> There is no real solution at the moment, but you can use a TextView instead of
> a TextLabel, because it has a TextWidth and TextHeight property.
>


Like I tried to say, TextView needs another component and has no
equivalent in GTK component. Also, it doesn't have "Padding", heh heh.
What TextView needs is a "AutoResize direction", with possible values
of horizontal, vertical and both.

Regards,
Joe1962