StringSize - M23 - New version 16 Aug 11

[Aapjuh 0]

Hi again,

Soooo... this is awkward.... i went through my code did a little cleaning and tidying up, switched and changed some stuff here and there... added other things... lo and behold it suddenly works fine...
What was it you ask? well... its like... you know... i have no clue :P
I even tried to break it again by commenting out new things and a few changes i did to revert them but it stays working.
I'm happy tho :P

[Aapjuh 0]

I'm getting a:
;                  |2 - DLL call error - extended set as follows:
;                       |2 - SendMessage failure

what does this mean?

Error msgbox with the parameters and the 2 error codes
$StringInfo = _StringSize($Talker_Name,$TempFontSize,$TempFontWeight,0,$TempFontType,$GuiWidth-$TempLabelSpacingH-12,$hGUI)


Edit:
GUISwitch($hGUI) prior to calling _StringSize seems to get around it

Edited May 4, 2022 by Aapjuh

[Melba23 3,789]

Aapjuh,

18 hours ago, Aapjuh said:

what does this mean?

Exactly what it says - there was an error in the SendMessage call (which returns the current font) to the GUI you specified in the StringSize call. Using GUISwitch to get that particular GUI active would have been my suggestion, so I am delighted to see that doing so solved the problem!

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[Aapjuh 0]

Me again

Getting error 3 (|3 - Font too large for chosen max width - a word will not fit )

; Check at least 1 word completed or return error
This part in your code says it checks if  'at least 1 fits' but its actually 'if 1 word doesn't fit throw error'

if i have a maxwidth of 50, and the string passed is "bla bla bla blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" even tho 'bla bla bla' each fit, there's 1 word that doesn't and it throws the error.
it would be nice to wrap 'blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa' like:

bla
bla
bla
b
l
a
a
a
a
a
a
a

Reason im asking is because the program im making read chatlog and removes the usual system stuf like color codes and time stamps, but people in chat are prone to spam dramatic 'Noooooooooooo...!!'

Edited May 5, 2022 by Aapjuh

[Melba23 3,789]

Aapjuh,

Two possible solutions:

1. Increase the MaxWidth parameter - 50 is not very wide.

2. Preprocess your string so that you split words that are too long - here is a simple example based on your string above:

#include <Array.au3>
#include <StringSize.au3>

$sText = "bla bla bla blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"

$aSplit_1 = StringSplit($sText, " ")

_ArrayDisplay($aSplit_1, "", Default, 8)

For $i = 1 To $aSplit_1[0]
    $aRet = _StringSize($aSplit_1[$i])
    If $aRet[2] > 50 Then
        $aSplit_2 = StringSplit($aSplit_1[$i], "")
        For $j = 1 To $aSplit_2[0]
            ConsoleWrite($aSplit_2[$j] & @CRLF)
        Next
    Else
        ConsoleWrite($aSplit_1[$i] & @CRLF)
    EndIf
Next

That gives you the result you require - but you have to do the work to split the overlong string.

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