I'm working for making a user interface which supports multiple languages, hence the text lengths in the labels of the forms may vary. I need help with re-sizing text size whenever required so that the text fits within the label.
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Beginner in Visual Studio here.
I'm trying to create an C# Windows Form application that simply displays a form to show some information about the local system.
I have created this form with the help of the VS designer:
As you can see, it consists of a simple panel with a PictureBox at the top, a label below it (both centered), three table layouts next to each other, and a button at the bottom. Never mind the label texts.
The rows of all the table layouts are set to absolute, this is because I want to programatically add rows to the end middle and right table layout if there are more than one local IP address in the computer and setting the rows to auto size or percentage would make alignment difficult if more rows are added.
Now, my problem is that I can't figure out how to make the form resize and move the controls (specifically move the 'OK' button down) when more rows are added.
I have tried anchoring the button to the bottom edge of the form as well as the bottom of the middle table, both produce the same result: the button stays where it is and the new rows overlap it, like this
I would also like to know how to have the form resize to fit the contents of the labels. For example, if the text in one of the labels inside the layout is bigger than the column width, I'd like to have the form grow to accommodate it. Likewise, I'd like the form to shrink to fit the largest text.
I realize that this may not be the most efficient or easiest way to create this particular form, but it is what I've come up with, I of course welcome any suggestions in that regard. It is important to maintain alignment between the rows of all table layouts.
Thanks in advance.
Use a data grid and add controls to it if an add button is pressed. You can scroll through the rows so you won't need to adjust the height of the form
I want to change the color of date text tag {{_es_:signer:date}}. Is there a way to do that? I have been on EchoSign for 4 days. I am now looking for the color changing in it.
This is what they have in their Text tagging documentation,
"The form field formatting (font size, type, color, etc.) is determined by the format of the first ‘{‘. To ensure correct processing of Text Tags by EchoSign tag definitions should be specified in commonly occurring fonts within the document (Helvetica, Times New Roman, Arial, Verdana or Courier). Text Tag definitions are case sensitive and must be specified in lowercase text."
Or if you want to set color of the field dynamically, I guess you'll have to google about using Acrobat Javascript.
this should work
{{es:signer:date:font(color=green}}
probably too late, but might help someone
I am building a form which contains two forms adjacent to each other. Hence I used PanelGridLayout and placed two panelFormLayout in each 50% width gridCell of first gridRow of a PanelGridLayout. This works perfect with respect to alignment but in a smaller resolution both the gridcell's are overlapping and the fields of left form are overlapping with the labels of the right form.
How can I resolve this issue?
Any ideas on which layouts I can use?
What would you expect it to do in such a case where there is basically not enough space to show the fields in one of the sides?
ADF won't automatically shrink or eliminate fields in such a case.
Acc to the Geometry Management of <af:gridCell>
Beware that if you attempt to use width="auto", halign="center", halign="end" in conjunction with cell content that uses unstable, percentage-based widths, you may experience different results in different browsers. If you wish to use these settings, be sure to constraint the width of that cell content.
Possible Workaround
instead of halign="end" change it to halign="stretch"
source : https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35521_01/apirefs.111230/e17491/tagdoc/af_gridCell.html
Hell Everybody,
I need to provide a facility like letters printing.for letter formats i used a richtextbox to create different formats(Templates).now i need to print this formats with header.Heder information will change always and header height should be fixed for the page.For header informtion displaying also i took one Richtextbox.now i want to merge these two richtext box information before printing.but i failed to maintained the fixed header,if i merge the textboxs information.
Suggest me,what way is better to handle this.
I have a chart in WPF with a lot of labels. The text on these labels is dynamically loaded and subject to change. If I set the width just to auto, then these labels may overlap, which makes the text unreadable.
The chart support multiple sizes, so if it gets larger, then the bars are re sized and there is more space for text. Now I want to adjust the text to the space which is available. If it gets too small, I don't want to display the label anymore (a tooltip is available, so the user still gets the required information). Consider the string "Case 1, blah blah", there is probably not enough space to display the whole string, but just the first word. In this case I want the string to be "Case 1..", with .. indicating that there is some more information in the tooltip.
I can determine the length available for the string. But how can I determine the space a single letter will take? Of course I could also just re size the label, but then it would just cut off the string anywhere which is probably not helpful for the user (and looks ugly).
Any ideas?
If you can use TextBlocks instead of labels then they have a TextTrimming property which will do this for you to either the nearest character or the nearest word.
While you seem happy with the TextTrimming property, I'll edit this to add that the TextBox control has a GetRectFromCharacterIndex method that would allow you to find out the size on screen of one or more characters as long as the font settings matched your label. This might be useful if you wanted to trim at specific places in the label rather than the nearest character / word.
Not an expert in WPF, but I would think that you'll need to do this in code rather than XAML.
Start by obtaining the actual pixel width of the space available for the text.
Then look at the character set, dot pitch etc. utilised on the XAML front end and from there calculate the pixel width required per character.
You could also look at changing the character sizes as well as reducing the label length.