LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hi;

I need to get the size of the displayed text in a LinkLabel? How can I
do that?

thanks - dave

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date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 19:19:23 -0600 author: David Thielen am

RE: LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hello Dave,

Suppose a LinkLabel control named linkLabel1, we can get the font size of 
the displayed text by:

this.linkLabel1.Font.Size

The unit of measure is determined by 

this.linkLabel1.Font.Unit

whose value can be among the GraphicsUnit enumeration.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphicsunit.aspx

Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.

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date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:22:28 GMT author: (Jialiang Ge [MSFT])

RE: LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hello Dave,

I suddenly realize that you meant the length of the entire displayed text 
instead of its font size. If the 'AutoSize' property is true, we can 
retrieve the text length with the LinkLabel.Size.Width property; otherwise, 
we may need to call MeasureString to get the length of the text based on 
its font (LinkLabel.Font)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.measurestrin
g.aspx

Regards, 
Jialiang Ge  (jialge@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:18:22 GMT author: (Jialiang Ge [MSFT])

Re: LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hi;

LinkLabel.Size seems to only grow, never shrink. Is there a way to get
it to reduce size when I give it new text and the new text is shorter?

thanks - dave


On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:18:22 GMT, jialge@online.microsoft.com
("Jialiang Ge [MSFT]") wrote:

>Hello Dave,
>
>I suddenly realize that you meant the length of the entire displayed text 
>instead of its font size. If the 'AutoSize' property is true, we can 
>retrieve the text length with the LinkLabel.Size.Width property; otherwise, 
>we may need to call MeasureString to get the length of the text based on 
>its font (LinkLabel.Font)
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.drawing.graphics.measurestrin
>g.aspx
>
>Regards, 
>Jialiang Ge  (jialge@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
>Microsoft Online Community Support
>
>=================================================
>Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and 
>suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please 
>feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service 
>provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at: 
>msdnmg@microsoft.com.
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>=================================================


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date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:43:26 -0600 author: David Thielen am

Re: LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hello Dave,

Please make sure that LinkLabel.AutoSize is set to true beforehand. It 
grows and never shrink when AutoSize is false. Here is an example:

this.linkLabel1.AutoSize = true;

this.linkLabel1.Text = "1";
MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());
this.linkLabel1.Text = "12";
MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());
this.linkLabel1.Text = "1";
MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());

The code outputs "98", "151", "98" on my side.

If this suggestion does not work for you, please you please give some code 
snippets that I can reproduce the problem?

Regards, 
Jialiang Ge  (jialge@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:25:32 GMT author: (Jialiang Ge [MSFT])

Re: LinkLabel - how long is the displayed text?

Hi;

Thank you - got it working. I think it requires some messages to fire
to happen (MessageBox causes everything to fire). I moved where I get
it and it works fine now.

thanks - dave

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:25:32 GMT, jialge@online.microsoft.com
("Jialiang Ge [MSFT]") wrote:

>Hello Dave,
>
>Please make sure that LinkLabel.AutoSize is set to true beforehand. It 
>grows and never shrink when AutoSize is false. Here is an example:
>
>this.linkLabel1.AutoSize = true;
>
>this.linkLabel1.Text = "1";
>MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());
>this.linkLabel1.Text = "12";
>MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());
>this.linkLabel1.Text = "1";
>MessageBox.Show(this.linkLabel1.Size.Width.ToString());
>
>The code outputs "98", "151", "98" on my side.
>
>If this suggestion does not work for you, please you please give some code 
>snippets that I can reproduce the problem?
>
>Regards, 
>Jialiang Ge  (jialge@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
>Microsoft Online Community Support
>
>=================================================
>Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and 
>suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please 
>feel free to let my manager know what you think of the level of service 
>provided. You can send feedback directly to my manager at: 
>msdnmg@microsoft.com.
>
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
>=================================================


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date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:36:11 -0600 author: David Thielen am