[JW Lua] Dynamic dialog sizing

Sat Feb 25 00:42:02 CET 2023

Is this what you’re after?
enigma_string.calc_text_advance_width(inp_string)
https://www.finalelua.com/docs/library/enigma-string#calc_text_advance_width

(I think it returns EVPU)

Carl

> On 25 Feb 2023, at 5:41 am, jwlua-request at jwmusic.nu wrote:
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> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:51:02 -0500
> From: Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com <mailto:aaron at sherber.com>>
> To: "The JW Lua script plug-in." <jwlua at jwmusic.nu <mailto:jwlua at jwmusic.nu>>
> Subject: [JW Lua] Dynamic dialog sizing
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> 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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> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:43:47 -0500
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> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 8:51 AM Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com <mailto:aaron at sherber.com>> wrote:
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>> 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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> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 12:00:01 -0600
> From: Robert Patterson <robert at robertgpatterson.com <mailto:robert at robertgpatterson.com>>
> To: "The JW Lua script plug-in." <jwlua at jwmusic.nu <mailto:jwlua at jwmusic.nu>>
> Subject: Re: [JW Lua] Dynamic dialog sizing
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> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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> Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 13:40:41 -0500
> From: Aaron Sherber <aaron at sherber.com <mailto:aaron at sherber.com>>
> To: "The JW Lua script plug-in." <jwlua at jwmusic.nu <mailto:jwlua at jwmusic.nu>>
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> How can you get the text width from FCFontInfo? I don't see any functions
> for that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Aaron.
> 
> 
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> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 1:01 PM Robert Patterson <
> robert at robertgpatterson.com <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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>>> JWLua at jwmusic.nu <mailto:JWLua at jwmusic.nu>
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