Label AutoSize Behaves Differently from VB6

[Charles Law]

I have noticed that the label control in .NET doesn't work quite the same as
it used to do.

It used to be possible to set it to auto-size in such a way that the width
remained constant and the height varied according to the amount of text in
the control.

Have I missed a setting somewhere or is there another way of doing it now?

TIA

Charles

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

"Charles Law" <bl***@nowhere.com> schrieb:

I have noticed that the label control in .NET doesn't work quite the same
as it used to do.

It used to be possible to set it to auto-size in such a way that the width
remained constant and the height varied according to the amount of text in
the control.

Have I missed a setting somewhere or is there another way of doing it now?

\\\
Me.Label1.Text = "Hello Bla World Foo Goo Bloo Hoo Joo..."
Dim g As Graphics = Me.Label1.CreateGraphics()
Me.Label1.Height = _
CInt( _
g.MeasureString( _
Me.Label1.Text, _
Me.Label1.Font, _
Me.Label1.Width _
).Height _
)
g.Dispose()
///

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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>

[Charles Law]

Hi Herfried

You read my mind ... or I read yours :-)

After posting, I got on and created a user control called AutoLabel,
inherited from Label, and included the self same code in the OnResize
method, et. al. I reckoned that it would be as effective as the original,
and it was.

Cheers.

Charles
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"Charles Law" <bl***@nowhere.com> schrieb:

I have noticed that the label control in .NET doesn't work quite the same
as it used to do.

It used to be possible to set it to auto-size in such a way that the
width remained constant and the height varied according to the amount of
text in the control.

Have I missed a setting somewhere or is there another way of doing it
now?

\\\
Me.Label1.Text = "Hello Bla World Foo Goo Bloo Hoo Joo..."
Dim g As Graphics = Me.Label1.CreateGraphics()
Me.Label1.Height = _
CInt( _
g.MeasureString( _
Me.Label1.Text, _
Me.Label1.Font, _
Me.Label1.Width _
).Height _
)
g.Dispose()
///

--
M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://classicvb.org/petition/>