Label Box Wrapping

[Guest]

I have an application using WinForms under C#. I do not use the IDE, I use
the command line compiler, I build my controls in my application code. The
application generally works fine, except for one small problem: I have made a
user control that has a Label Box to display the prompt. The problem is that
the text in the label box sometimes wraps to a second line on a word break,
and I do not want it to.

I have tried all the wrapping type properties I could find for that type of
control, and have tried making the control longer and less high, so it has no
reason to wrap, but it still does.

Thanks.

 

[Stoitcho Goutsev \(100\) [C# MVP]]

Richard MSL,

You probably need to post compilable sample code that demonsteates the
problem.

 

[Dave]

System.Windows.Forms.Label will always wrap text. I don't think it even has a "Wrap" property or anything of the like.

You can determine an appropriate size for the label by using a Graphics object and it's MeasureString method:

using (System.Drawing.Graphics g = myLabel.CreateGraphics())
{
// Set the width of the label to include the full size of the text
myLabel.Width = (int) g.MeasureString(myLabel.Text, myLabel.Font).Width + 10; // Pad with 10 pixels
}

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Dave Sexton
[email protected]
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Richard MSL,

You probably need to post compilable sample code that demonsteates the problem.


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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

I have an application using WinForms under C#. I do not use the IDE, I use
the command line compiler, I build my controls in my application code. The
application generally works fine, except for one small problem: I have made a
user control that has a Label Box to display the prompt. The problem is that
the text in the label box sometimes wraps to a second line on a word break,
and I do not want it to.

I have tried all the wrapping type properties I could find for that type of
control, and have tried making the control longer and less high, so it has no
reason to wrap, but it still does.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the responses, I had already tried to make the box longer so that
it did not need to wrap. I will post the actual source code so that perhaps
someone can see what I am doing incorrectly.

System.Windows.Forms.Label will always wrap text. I don't think it even has a "Wrap" property or anything of the like.

You can determine an appropriate size for the label by using a Graphics object and it's MeasureString method:

using (System.Drawing.Graphics g = myLabel.CreateGraphics())
{
// Set the width of the label to include the full size of the text
myLabel.Width = (int) g.MeasureString(myLabel.Text, myLabel.Font).Width + 10; // Pad with 10 pixels
}

--
Dave Sexton
[email protected]
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

Richard MSL,

You probably need to post compilable sample code that demonsteates the problem.


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Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

I have an application using WinForms under C#. I do not use the IDE, I use
the command line compiler, I build my controls in my application code. The
application generally works fine, except for one small problem: I have made a
user control that has a Label Box to display the prompt. The problem is that
the text in the label box sometimes wraps to a second line on a word break,
and I do not want it to.

I have tried all the wrapping type properties I could find for that type of
control, and have tried making the control longer and less high, so it has no
reason to wrap, but it still does.

Thanks.

 

[Guest]

I have solved the problem, once I went to extract it to post, it became
obvious, I was sizing the container not the label. Thanks for the help.

Richard MSL,

You probably need to post compilable sample code that demonsteates the
problem.


--
Stoitcho Goutsev (100) [C# MVP]

I have an application using WinForms under C#. I do not use the IDE, I use
the command line compiler, I build my controls in my application code. The
application generally works fine, except for one small problem: I have
made a
user control that has a Label Box to display the prompt. The problem is
that
the text in the label box sometimes wraps to a second line on a word
break,
and I do not want it to.

I have tried all the wrapping type properties I could find for that type
of
control, and have tried making the control longer and less high, so it has
no
reason to wrap, but it still does.

Thanks.