Subj : Size problems with TTextGadget
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Alan Jones
Date : Tue Apr 19 2005 10:34 am

I'm using OWL and BC++ 5.02.

I use TText Gadget to insert items in the status bar at the bottom of the
screen.  The documentation says that the fourth parameter specifies the
number of characters:

numChars

Specifies the number of characters to be displayed in the gadget and
determines gadget's width. To calculate the required gadget width, the
gadget multiplies the number of characters by the maximum character width of
the current font. The height of the gadget is based on the maximum character
height of the current font, plus space for the margin and border.

However, I find I have to set the numChars to 6 to hold a message that is 11
characters wide.  This is on Windows NT.  When I run the same program on
Windows XP, the space for this Gadget is much wider.  So much wider that
most of my gadgets are pushed right off the screen.

I have tried changing the current font but it seems to have no effect.

Alan

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