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Label "cut" in wizard page [message #459036]

Fri, 29 July 2005 09:20

Eclipse User

Hello !

I have some labels on a wizard page. It worked fine until I decided to
use tabs ("\t") to align words. Now the end of some words is cut :

Screenshot : http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6923/labelcut4ad.jpg

Does anybody know why this happens ? Thanks

Vincent

Re: Label "cut" in wizard page [message #459037 is a reply to message #459036]

Fri, 29 July 2005 09:21

Eclipse User

Vincent Etter wrote:
> Hello !
>
> I have some labels on a wizard page. It worked fine until I decided to
> use tabs ("\t") to align words. Now the end of some words is cut :
>
> Screenshot : http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6923/labelcut4ad.jpg
>
> Does anybody know why this happens ? Thanks
>
> Vincent

The text must be :

Inclure les fichiers cachés : Non
Inclure les sous-répertoires : Oui

Re: Label "cut" in wizard page [message #459058 is a reply to message #459037]

Fri, 29 July 2005 10:48

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sunil_kamath.nohotspammail.com

"Vincent Etter" <vincent.etter@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dcdagn$r95$2@news.eclipse.org...
> Vincent Etter wrote:
>> Hello !
>>
>> I have some labels on a wizard page. It worked fine until I decided to
>> use tabs ("\t") to align words. Now the end of some words is cut :
>>
>> Screenshot : http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6923/labelcut4ad.jpg
>>
>> Does anybody know why this happens ? Thanks
>>
>> Vincent
>
> The text must be :
>
> Inclure les fichiers cach

Re: Label "cut" in wizard page [message #459059 is a reply to message #459058]

Fri, 29 July 2005 11:10

Eclipse User

Sunil Kamath wrote:
> "Vincent Etter" <vincent.etter@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:dcdagn$r95$2@news.eclipse.org...
>
>>Vincent Etter wrote:
>>
>>>Hello !
>>>
>>>I have some labels on a wizard page. It worked fine until I decided to
>>>use tabs ("\t") to align words. Now the end of some words is cut :
>>>
>>>Screenshot : http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6923/labelcut4ad.jpg
>>>
>>>Does anybody know why this happens ? Thanks
>>>
>>>Vincent
>>
>>The text must be :
>>
>>Inclure les fichiers cachés : Non
>>Inclure les sous-répertoires : Oui
>
>
> Did you try increasing the width of the labels manually?
> Or, if you are using GridLayout, you could set
> GridData.grabExcessHorizontalSpace = true.
> AFAIK, When a component calculates its preferred size, it doesn't
> distinguish between normal characters and special characters.
> It uses an average character width multiplied by the number of characters.
> ---
> Sunil
>
>

I "packed" my labels but didn't try to increase their size manually. I
solved the problem with formlayouts. Thanks for your answer ! It's good
to know that size is "estimanted" and not really calculated...

Vincent

Re: Label "cut" in wizard page [message #459475 is a reply to message #459059]

Tue, 09 August 2005 17:10

Eclipse User

>> AFAIK, When a component calculates its preferred size, it doesn't
>> distinguish between normal characters and special characters.
>> It uses an average character width multiplied by the number of
>> characters.

This is not correct. For example, custom widget in SWT use
GC.textExtent(String string, int flags) where the flags specify whether
tabs, mnemonis, or delimiters should be considered when measuring string
lengths. This is also true of native widgets. In cases where this is found
to not be true, you should enter bug reports.

"Vincent Etter" <vincent.etter@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:dcdgtu$4em$1@news.eclipse.org...
> Sunil Kamath wrote:
>> "Vincent Etter" <vincent.etter@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:dcdagn$r95$2@news.eclipse.org...
>>
>>>Vincent Etter wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello !
>>>>
>>>>I have some labels on a wizard page. It worked fine until I decided to
>>>>use tabs ("\t") to align words. Now the end of some words is cut :
>>>>
>>>>Screenshot : http://img288.imageshack.us/img288/6923/labelcut4ad.jpg
>>>>
>>>>Does anybody know why this happens ? Thanks
>>>>
>>>>Vincent
>>>
>>>The text must be :
>>>
>>>Inclure les fichiers cach

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