[Gambas-user] Scrolling text ... how to do in gambas

[M0E Lnx]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 2:29 AM, Werner <wdahn at ...1000...> wrote:
> M0E Lnx wrote:
>  > I'm not sure this does what I need though...
>  > In this code you sent, there is a scrollview, and a text label.
>  > The timer shifts the scrollview's Y property to do the animation, but
>  > still doesn't work for me, because that would be the same as simply
>  > using a text label, and moving it's Y property.
>  >
>  > That I can do with a timer like in your example... but how to
>  > determine how tall or wide the text label has to be in order for the
>  > text not to get cut off the label?
>  >
>  >
>  If I understand the question correctly, you want to know how many pixels
>  wide and high a given text using a particular font on the screen will be.
>
>  The gb.qt Font class has the answer to that.
>
>  Example: if the name of your TextLabel is txl then
>
>  PRINT "The text is " & txl.Font.Width(txl.Text) & " pixel wide and " &
>  txl.Font.Height(txl.Text) & " pixel high."
>
>  prints the width and the height when using the TextLabel's font.
>
>  One word of caution: Some fonts designers were a little sloppy in
>  describing their fonts accurately, especially as far as height is concerned.
>
>  Hope I haven't answered a different question :-)
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Werner
>
>
>
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This is exactly what I needed... thank you