[Gambas-user] Gridview Q and determining width of a string

[Richard Terry]

Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
>
>   
>> I'm loading a grid with variable length strings, and want to adjust the
>> column widths to match, or have the option to increase the height of a
>> cell with word-wrap within the cell.
>>
>> I wondered if anyone has gone down this path before.
>>     
>
> Yes and no :-)
>
> To adjust the width, use Table.Font.Width(LongestString), maybe with a 
> for-next loop at first to check the contents of all cells in a column, 
> delivering a pointer to the longest string. As far as I understand, the 
> Table (or Grid) has one font only, so it can be easily set this way. 
> Correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> The WordWrap feature is switched on in one of my projects here, but I 
> cannot find where quickly. Maybe I simply switched it on in the IDE as a 
> default. Anyway, I'm having difficulties with the height of the line as 
> it is not adapted automatically (at least this is my problem in Gambas2, 
> I don't know how this is in Gambas3 yet).
>
> In this context I really like your idea with the label though the way 
> you use it is not necessary as you have Table.Font.Width to do this:
>
>   
>> I tried having a hidden label with auto-resize = false, setting the
>> label.text property to the string, reading the width, then setting the
>> max width of all the strings to the column width. This works but seems
>> messy, plus I found I had to put a Wait command after each label update
>> or the label didn't resize.
>>     
>
> But I could imagine it useful for wrapping the text AND find out how 
> many rows of text result from it, setting the Height property for the row.
>
> Rolf
>
>   
Hi Rolf,

thanks for your reply, I tried the font.width property, had to had 10 to 
it to make it wide enough but  it works well enough.

I  found the wrap property so will experiment and report back over the 
weekend (later night now in AU and only just sat down at the puter!.

richard