[JW Lua] Dynamic dialog sizing

[Aaron Sherber]

How can you get the text width from FCFontInfo? I don't see any functions
for that.

Thanks,
Aaron.






On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:01 PM Robert Patterson <
robert at robertgpatterson.com> wrote:

> You could call CreateFontInfo on the control and then use that to get the
> text width. You probably need to do this in the InitWindow callback.
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:45 AM Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I see that a couple of places in the library multiply character count by
>> 6 in order to get control length. Is that a reasonable approximation for
>> the default text fonts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Aaron.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 8:51 AM Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'm working with FCCustom(Lua)Window and having some difficulties with
>>> sizing.
>>>
>>> I want to display a static label on a dialog, but I don't know at design
>>> time how long the text in the label is -- let's say it's a path+filename. I
>>> don't see a way to make the FCCtrlStatic dynamically fit the length of the
>>> text, or to make the overall width of the dialog fit the length of the
>>> control.
>>>
>>> Is there a good way to accomplish this? Or is my best bet to approximate
>>> the needed control length in points based on the character count and then
>>> set sizes based on that, hoping that everything works?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Aaron.
>>>
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