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Re: Widget_Label [message #25121 is a reply to message #10225]

Wed, 16 May 2001 08:54

Ben Tupper
Messages: 186
Registered: August 1999

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Hi,

This might be where you should turn to Widget_Text instead of Widget_Label.
You have a lot more control over Widget_Text formatting than you do with
Widget_Label (as an example, the keyword WRAP exists for text widgets but
not for label widgets.)

Ben

Mark Guagenti wrote:

> Hello,
> It's been a few months since I've done any IDL programming but I'm back
> at it again! There is something that I just can't seem to figure out
> and I'm sure it's easy and I'm just missing it. I have a Widget_Label
> with a significant amount of text in the VALUE keyword. I created it
> using the IDL (using 5.2.1) gui builder and it displays just fine. Then
> when I run it (or even you use the test GUI option) it displays the text
> in one line instead of wrapping it. Since the text is long enough you
> can't see it all and it gets cut off. How do you have the text wrap to
> fill the size of your Widget_Label?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Mark

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		Widget_Label growth (Re: widget_control,draw_widget) By: mgs on Fri, 24 October 1997 00:00
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