Truncate the Level of the button To next line

[pkmittal]

Hi, If the level of the button is long and I want to truncate it to next line (by increasing the height of the width) then how can we do this in live code?

[Klaus]

Hi pkmittal,

I think you mean the LABEL of a button?

You can do this:
1. With the messagebox (or any other script
set the label of btn 1 to ("This is line 1" & CR & "This is line 2 of the label")

2. In the inspector for the button enter BACKSLASH-N \n to add a new line:
This is line 1\nThis is line 2 of the label

Hope I understood you correctly.


Best

Klaus

[pkmittal]

Thanks. But I want to do it automatically if the label of the button does not fit in the width of the button then it should show the remaining next in new line..

So depending on width of the button, It should show the truncate the label from one line to another line..

[Klaus]

Ah, get it now!
Sorry, no idea how to do that..

[jacque]

Try this:

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on setLabel pLbl
  set the label of btn 1 to pLbl
  if the formattedwidth of btn 1 > the width of btn 1 then
    put the number of words in pLbl div 2 into tMiddle
    put word 1 to tMiddle of pLbl & cr & word (tMiddle + 1) to -1 of pLbl into pLbl
  end if
  set the label of btn 1 to pLbl
end setLabel

[dunbarx]

Hi.

Jacque's trick should work. But what if the label requires three or more lines? It may never, but I bet you would get a kick out of writing a general solution, based on her methods.

Craig Newman

[pkmittal]

Thanks a lot for your help