Subj : Re: Size problems with TTextGadget
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : Mohsen
Date : Wed Apr 27 2005 12:34 pm


"Alan Jones" <AlanJones@stny.rr.com> wrote:
>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
>
>
I've also faced the same problem, I don't know the reason, but
a look at the example shipped with borland might help as it
properly handles the text sizes:

BC5\EXAMPLES\OWL\APPS\BLAZER

Mohsen

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