GUI: Wrap label text without spaces?

[caseelse]

Hello everybody!

I'm trying to create a label which displays strings of up to 64 characters (alphanumeric and special chars). However, the label is 32 chars wide and 2 chars high. So I would like strings with more than 32 chars to wrap to two lines without having to insert spaces anywhere in the string. This is what it looks like at the moment

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>
...
GUICtrlCreateLabel("1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234", 20, 145, 195, 30, $SS_CENTER+$SS_SUNKEN)

(The numeric string is only an example for debugging purposes.)

Can anybody point me in the right direction, please?

Thanks

CE

[Melba23]

caseelse,

Welcome the the AutoIt forum.

Just test the length of the string before displaying it:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <StaticConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$sData = "1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234"

If StringLen($sData) > 32 Then $sData = StringMid($sData, 1, 32) & @CRLF & StringMid($sData, 33)

GUICtrlCreateLabel($sData, 20, 145, 195, 30, BitOR($SS_CENTER, $SS_SUNKEN))

GUISetState()

While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Note the use of BitOR to set multiple styles. You can find out why you should do it this way in the Setting Styles tutorial in the Wiki.

M23

[caseelse]

Hi M23,

Thanks for your warm welcome and your great help.

I had been hoping that there was some style or something so that I could avoid modifying the string. However, I think I'm just going to externalize your split string function so that I can keep the original string intact and continue using it in the program.

Note the use of BitOR to set multiple styles. You can find out why you should do it this way in the Setting Styles tutorial in the Wiki.

That is a great tip. I have to admit that I'm just a hobby programmer and so far have only been creating very simple apps in VB6 . This little program is part of my effort to migrate them to AutoIt so that I won't need the stupid VB runtimes anymore.

Anyway, you certainly helped me a lot.

Thanks again

cheers

CE

[Melba23]

caseelse,

I'm just a hobby programmer

So am I - fun, isn't it!

M23

[ajag]

I have to admit that I'm just a hobby programmer and so far have only been creating very simple apps in VB6

I created some professional applications using VB4 and VB6. Don't think VB is for hobbyists only (like many others do)!

[...] to migrate them to AutoIt so that I won't need the stupid VB runtimes anymore.

This is one reason for me too to use AutoIt (or Borland C++ Builder) .

A-Jay

[caseelse]

Don't think VB is for hobbyists only (like many others do)!

Yepp, I know what great things other people can do with VB6 - just not me

I tried learning C/C++ at one point and managed to get the basic concepts. However, the language soon became too abstract for me.

Basically, I'm only using programming to automate repeating tasks and speed up things on PC and Mac. So whatever I'm coding, it's always solution-oriented and the breaks in between are usually so long that at the beginning I always have to look up even simple things again because I don't quite remember the exact syntax. So, "hobby programmer" might not be the correct term, more like "necessity programmer"

Anyway, it just feels great when it works in the end and the thing does exactly what I wanted it to. (With the results I can't usually impress anybody except my wife who doesn't care too much about computers )