[Gambas-user] Control widths, fonts, desktop scales, strings and a bad memory

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 03/09/2018 à 09:42, Me a écrit :
> In the back of my mind there is a tiny hope that some time ago someone had a way to (approximately) work out whether..
> "Will this string fit into the current control width?"
> 
> Anyone out there with a good memory?
> 
> tia
> b
> 
> 

You can't, because you can't know where a control draws its text, how it 
draws it, and if it has a border, inner padding, and so on.

Some controls have an AutoResize property to deal with that for you.

Otherwise you must use the Control.Font.TextWidth() method and add some 
approximate padding.

Regards,

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Benoît Minisini