I want to set the position of my text in textbox and I don not know how, since there is no 'padding' property I can change. I don not want use panel to adjust my text
is there any other way? can I change the font margin in font editor software like fontCreator?
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In this WinForms-App (not my choice, they made me use WinForms) there is a FlowLayoutPanel filled with a NumericTextBox, a Label and a CheckBox.
Each control has a text which is displayed. The text of the Label is about 3 pt lower than the other texts (image).
Changing the margin of the Label is not an option, because the outcome after changing the font could be unwanted.
Has anyone an idea of how to fix this without changing the margin?
I tried to change the anchoring and docking for the controls in the FlowLayoutPanel, and the outcome that came closest to my expectations was the one in the image.
I am kinda new to WPF. I am programatically inserting text into textbox. This textbox is added to stackpanel programatically.
The problem is the textbox is not resizing. I have set textbox textwrapping to wrap.
textbox.TextWrapping=TextWrapping.Wrap;
Please guide me, how to set the text box resize after assigning text to it.
textbox.Text="some long paragraph text";
Increase the width of textbox or define MaxWidth and use this TextWrapping Property.
It May help You.
after bit struggle, finally I figured out the solution.
In my case, by saying resize I mean, the textbox should expand according to the text content. But in my code, I had set the height of the text box. Thats why after assigning a paragraph of text, it was not resizing (expanding according to the text content)
If you set height of the text box, then it wont expand. Set margin if required and set textwrapping to wrap. It will work fine now.
I put my label inside a two-column grid and set its size to auto and when I run my application, the label's size grows if I maximize it (I'm sure it grows because I've put a background color and the background color also resizes to accommodate the entire two-column grid it's been placed into. My problem is that the label's text itself doesn't grow and stays the same 9pt. Am I missing a property option to set my Label's text to also auto-resize?
I've read tutorials doing this with a viewbox and a textblock and although it works, I've had trouble setting it up in two columns as it resizes weirdly when I run the application despite setting it up right.
Okay I finally did it. What I did was use the Viewbox + Textblock and I've put a border around the viewbox and set its background accordingly and had the textblock's background to none and now it's working as I wanted it to.
The problem I had back then was I didn't know how to put a background color on the viewbox so I tried a remedy wherein I changed the textblock's background but the problem was the textblock has its own size and even if I stretch it, it would only encompass the width of the text and not the whole viewbox.
What criteria must I consider when selecting one of these two controls?
Common to both TextBlocks and TextBoxes:
Can be used to display text
Can be set to specific Height and Width or be set to Auto so that they grow in size with the text.
Can set font size, font type, font styling, to wrap and to range left, right or centred.
Can have opacity set and have Pixel Shaders applied.
TextBlock:
Used for displaying text more focused typographically.
Can contain text set to different colors, fonts and sizes.
The line height can also be increased from the default setting to give more space between each line of text.
Text inside a TextBlock cannot be made selectable by the user.
TextBox:
Used for displaying text more focused for content input or when content is needed to be made selectable by the user.
Can only be set to one colour, one font size, one font type etc.
Have fixed Line Spacing.
Can also be set to a fixed height and width but also have scrollbars switched on to allow content to expand.
TextBlock is more lightweight control for displaying text and TextBox is used when you require user input or edit existing text. Proof for mem usage.
What's the correct pattern to resize controls when a font size changes?
For example, I used the WPF designer to make a form, and placed UI elements from the toolbox. Late in the game I got the requirement that the font size of every UI element needs to be configurable, so now I'm thinking there has to be a better way to resize controls when the font size changes. Right now I'm doing alot of code behind calculations on Margin properties.
For such cases I usually place my control inside Grids and StackPanels, this way font size won't affect the layout, everything will be stretchable.
Never place controls on the Window using absolute coordinates.
Make sure your Height and Width on the controls are set to Auto.
When you use the designer/toolbox to add controls it usually provides a static height/width. If you type the tag in the XAML editor you get the control default which is usually Auto.
You'll notice the black diamond in the property window next to the attributes that are changed from their default value. You can right click and choose reset value to clear the attribute from your XAML and see what the default value is.