.NET Framework - WordWrap lost in .net ?

Asked By Christian Hubert-Hugoud / weabow - Xtrem7 - Groobax

12-Mar-10 10:53 AM

In VB6 we have the WordWrap property, whiche enables the growth of the label
control. it is useful, because we just have to put text into it, and the
control resizes itself properly.

I need to manage the same behavior in FW4, WPF. But the label is not
multiline, and I did not find any control which grows to wrap its content.

Maybee I am missing something somewhere ? Do you have a solution ?

Christian

12-Mar-10 11:46 AM

Being a web developer, I cannot claim to know a lot about that, but after
looking at the documentation, I found the following:

ms-help://MS.VSCC.v90/MS.MSDNQTR.v90.en/dv_vbvers/html/200d20d2-b15a-4446-87e2-b599c2506bdb.htm

Which includes the following two pieces of information:


WordWrap Property
In Visual Basic 6.0, the WordWrap property determines if text wraps to
multiple lines when it is too long to fit in a label.

In Visual Basic 2008, the text in a Label control automatically wraps. The
only way to prevent wrapping is to make the height of the Label control
equivalent to a single line of text.



WordWrap
New implementation.

Note:
Text in the Visual Basic 2008 Label control wraps by default and cannot be
changed.



What the purpose of the WordWrap property is if wrapping cannot be changed,
I do not know, but like I said, I am a web developer, so I have not used it
much. Good Luck!
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Nathan Sokalski
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12-Mar-10 12:00 PM

You can set a TextBox to Multiline and ReadOnly.  it is not quite exactly
the same as a wrapping, multiline Label but it comes close.

Alternatively, the Label control is one of the easiest to create a
custom version of, so you could just write your own.

Pete

12-Mar-10 12:02 PM

Your answer is unfortunately the opposite of what the OP wants. MSDN is
saying that if you have a really tall label, the text it contains will wrap
within it. The OP has a really short label and wants it to automatically
GROW when the (now missing) WordWrap property is set to True. WordWrap is
actually a bad name for the functionality. It would have been better named
the years with the way VB6 named things.)

12-Mar-10 01:43 PM

Not a WPF expert but a TextBlock can wrap (interested but we do not use WPF
yet at our shop). If you do not find any other solution you could likely use
a TextBlock inside your Label...

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Patrice

écrit dans le message de groupe de discussion :

13-Mar-10 02:33 AM

Thanks a lot for your answers. I am goning to test the textbox.

Christian