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Thu, 04 August 2005 23:39

Eclipse User

I put a label into a composite, and the composite uses GridLayout. The
text of the label contains 5 characters, later I set the label text to
another string containing 20 characters, then the label can't be fully
displayed, only the first 5 characters are shown. I want the label to
expand its width to fit displaying when becoming longer. Any suggestion
for that? Thanks.

Re: expand Label width [message #459307 is a reply to message #459297]

Fri, 05 August 2005 05:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: sarek.nurfuerspam.de

Hi,

Qiang Song wrote:
> I put a label into a composite, and the composite uses GridLayout. The
> text of the label contains 5 characters, later I set the label text to
> another string containing 20 characters, then the label can't be fully
> displayed, only the first 5 characters are shown. I want the label to
> expand its width to fit displaying when becoming longer. Any suggestion
> for that? Thanks.

I'd say a:

comopisteWithLabelInit.layout()

should do it.

Or you could assign a GridData object to the label and have it use the
whole space available for example - so the label would always be of the
same size and only display text of different length.

HTH

Christian

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Re: expand Label width [message #459323 is a reply to message #459297]

Fri, 05 August 2005 10:44

Eclipse User

On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 05:39:44 +0200, Qiang Song <songq@cn.ibm.com> wrote:

> I put a label into a composite, and the composite uses GridLayout. The
> text of the label contains 5 characters, later I set the label text to
> another string containing 20 characters, then the label can't be fully
> displayed, only the first 5 characters are shown. I want the label to
> expand its width to fit displaying when becoming longer. Any suggestion
> for that? Thanks.

Add a GridData to your Label with grabExcessHorizontalSpace set to true?

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