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Controlling line breaks in Multiline labels [message #835896]

Tue, 03 April 2012 16:32

Eclipse User

Hi there,
In my continuing series of questions that may be better asked elsewhere...

Is there anyway to control (automatically) where a line break occurs in a multi line label text box. The issue I am having (and it is more and aesthetic issue) is that
a line such as
"The control variable in m_aileron_m1p1" will end up, possibly looking like:
"The control
variable in m_ail
eron_m1p1"

is a text box (auto-sized based on length of the text. I would prefer it to break on the _ if at all possible.

Thanks in advance for all your thoughts on the matter,
Joe

Re: Controlling line breaks in Multiline labels [message #875580 is a reply to message #835896]

Tue, 22 May 2012 21:31

Eclipse User

Taking a quick look at the MultiLineLabel class it looks like the work is being done by a TextFlow() object that you can't access since it is a private object and even if you could it doesn't readily provide subclassing access to allow the line break control that you are looking for.

Looks like you would have to roll your own solution to get custom line break behaviour.

Thomas

Re: Controlling line breaks in Multiline labels [message #875913 is a reply to message #875580]

Wed, 23 May 2012 10:45

Eclipse User

Thanks Thomas.

Sorry about my rather poorly worded post but thank you for overlooking that. I will investigate how to build my own.

Thanks,
Joe

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