[Gambas-user] TextBox does not wrap the text

Gianluigi bagonergi at gmail.com
Thu Sep 12 16:45:38 CEST 2019


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Gianluigi

Il giorno gio 12 set 2019 alle ore 16:35 Rolf-Werner Eilert <
rwe-sse at osnanet.de> ha scritto:

> Ok, after trying around for some while I found that TextLabel reacts to
> a change in Height or Width.
>
> I wanted to adapt its measures to the text within and to the space left
> from the position it was to appear until the right border of the window.
> What I intended was a little yellow help window with a help text which
> should pop up at the writing position.
>
> When I fix it at the top of the window and let it be visible all the
> time, never changing its size, it does wrap the text. But when I use its
> Font.Height and Font.Width properties to compute the number of potential
> lines and then change its measures appropriately, the text will not be
> wrapped anymore.
>
> Strange, but I have found a workaround at least - just leaving it as it
> is and leaving it visible.
>
> Regards
> Rolf
>
>
> Am 12.09.19 um 16:11 schrieb Bruce:
> > Hmmm, never noticed that. Check AutoResize and Expand properties???
> > Check parent Arrangement??? Otherwise no idea, sorry.
> > b
> >
> > On 12/9/19 11:34 pm, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> >> Sorry, I meant TextLabel...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Am 12.09.19 um 15:57 schrieb Bruce:
> >>> I might be a bit out of date, but I didn't think a TextBox could wrap?
> >>> b
> >>>
> >>> On 12/9/19 11:23 pm, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> >>>> I have a TextBox with WordWrap set to "True" (its default).
> >>>>
> >>>> Yet it does not wrap the text, what might be the reason? There are
> >>>> whitespaces in the text, so there shouldn't be a problem. And I give
> >>>> enough Height to show several lines.
> >>>>
> >>>> I am on an Ubuntu Mate but have included qt4 and qt4.ext (because I
> >>>> need some of the features there), might that be a reason?
> >>>>
> >>>> Regards
> >>>> Rolf
> >>>>
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