Bug: Labels and textboxes clip characters

[Bob Graham]

There is a bug that causes labels to clip a bit of the last character when
you choose right alignment. So I switched to using a textbox with backcolor
= control, borderstyle = none, to make it look like a label.

This variation causes the bottom of letters with lower sections like "p" to
be clipped!!!

Is this such a hard thing for MS to get right? The most basic two controls
you could possibly put on a form!

Does anyone know a work-around to get labels to right-align without clipping
characters? I'd rather give up on the text box idea for now, and get labels
to behave.

Thanks, Bob

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

There is a bug that causes labels to clip a bit of the last character when
you choose right alignment. So I switched to using a textbox with backcolor
= control, borderstyle = none, to make it look like a label.

This variation causes the bottom of letters with lower sections like "p" to
be clipped!!!

That's a "known" bug (I assume in GDI+). Setting the control's
'FlatStyle' property to 'System' is a workaround.

 

[Bob Graham]

Herfried,

That's a "known" bug (I assume in GDI+). Setting the control's
'FlatStyle' property to 'System' is a workaround.

I'm sorry, is that a work-around for the label control or the text box
control?

The work-around (read kludge) that I've found that works well for the label
control is to add a newline character in the win-forms generated code: -->
labelname.text = "text" & chr(13)

This seems to work real well.

Bob