[Gambas-user] Gambas-user Digest, Vol 44, Issue 46

[Aaron Peachey]

> Erm... have you tried putting text in the label's Caption property,
> set its width and X, Y location so that it is within the visible area
> of the form, yes?
>
> No, you haven't?
>
> There's your problem then, hey. The field has no text so it can't be
> seen, even if it is hiding behind the window title-bar.
>
> Also, lose lblName.Show().
>
> Regards,
>   
>
Thanks. My code did originally have lblName.Text and lblName.X/lblName.Y 
set but it still didn't show anything.

i.e. this code results in an empty form:

  DIM lblName AS Label

  lblName = NEW Label(ME)
  lblName.Text = "Test"
  lblName.X = 100
  lblName.Y = 100

However, I have just tried Doriano's suggestion:

  DIM l AS Label

  l = NEW Label(ME)
  l.Text = "Ciao"
  ' l.AutoResize = TRUE   ' alternative: use this and omit width+height
  l.Width = 50
  l.Height = 20

And this did the trick. It placed the label at the top left corner of the form (under the titlebar)

thanks for your help..I'm sure I'll be posting again soon!
Aaron