text alignment and buttons

[Terry Brown]

I have a problem where, depending on the text of a button, the display of
that text seems to change size or alignment.

Here is the code:

HomeScoreNameButton.ForeColor = Color.Green;
HomeScoreNameButton.Font = new System.Drawing.Font("Tahoma",
8.50F, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Regular,
System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point, ((System.Byte)(0));
this.HomeScoreNameButton.Location = new System.Drawing.Location(10,10);
this.HomeScoreNameButton.Name = "HomeScoreNameButton";
this.HomeScoreNameButton.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(24,16);
this.HomeScoreNameButton.Text = "Sunset";
this.HomeScoreNameButton.TextAlign = System.Drawing.ContentAlignment.MiddleRight;

the buttons are small (24,16) for a reason, and I can't make them bigger.
when the text of the button (which changes), is too long to display, it is
simply truncated from the right.

If the button text is "Sunset Girls", then it displays as "Sunset G"
(truncated to fit), and displays properly.

However, if the text is "Sunset Boys", then it displays as "Sunset"
(truncated), which is fine, but now the "S" (capital S) loses the topmost
line of the font, as if the vertical alignment of the button text has
changed, or the size of the font has changed.

Any ideas about what is happening?

Terry Brown
www.stickmansoftware.com

 

[Lebesgue]

I believe this has nothing to do whith C#, nor .NET WinForms. I would say
this is a Windows problem.

 

[Alan Pretre]

I have a problem where, depending on the text of a button, the display of
that text seems to change size or alignment.

Try setting the buttons' FlatStyle to System.

-- Alan

 

[Terry Brown]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 12:03:29 -0600, Alan Pretre wrote:

Thanks! That fixes the problem.

I hesitate to ask why . . .

 

[Alan Pretre]

I hesitate to ask why . . .

Not sure of the reason, didn't see this problem in .NET 1.1, seems to have
arisen in .NET 2.0.

-- Alan

 

[Bruce Wood]

Are you sure that it's not attempting to wrap the next word onto the
"next line" on the button, of which there is none, and shoving the
"first line" up farther to compensate?

 

[Alan Pretre]

Are you sure that it's not attempting to wrap the next word onto the
"next line" on the button, of which there is none, and shoving the
"first line" up farther to compensate?

Yes it is doing that, but it does it differently depending on that
FlatStyle. All I am saying is that the behavior has changed, I did not see
that behavior in my apps when it was built for .NET 1.1.

-- Alan

 

[Terry Brown]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:27:24 -0600, Alan Pretre wrote:

This makes sense to me. Thanks for the discussion. If this is true
(two lines generated) then I can fix the problem my manually truncating
the string to size. I'll give it a shot.

Terry