[Gambas-user] Can gambas figure out dimensions for objects?

[M0E Lnx]

I'm sorry, this is not working for me... when I do that, it simply
shifts the text to the left a little bit (4 or 5 pixels maybe)


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Jaap Cramer <jaap_cramer at ...67...> wrote:
> Jou can use a textlabel with the .adjust command
> It resizes the textlabel to a height where its content fits. I wrote
> function to calculate the desired height for textarea's by putting its
> contents and font-size in a textlabel; save the height and make it the
> height of the aera.
>
> I hope it helps...
>
> Jaap
>
> On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 09:02 -0500, M0E Lnx wrote:
>> Up to now, I've never needed this feature, so I never tried this. But
>> here is the situation now.
>>
>> I need to find out if it is possible at all for gambas to determine
>> the size of an object (button and textlabel mostly), based on the
>> object's .text property
>>
>> So why do you need this you ask?
>> I'm trying to offer room for translation of a project of mine. So the
>> hard coded text on the objects will fit just right, But a translated
>> version of an object's text, may be shorter or longer, depending on
>> the target language.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea how to accomplish such a task?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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