If I set AutoSize = true on an UltraLabel, its height becomes fixed and its width expands/collapses to accommodate its text.
What I can't figure out is how to fix its width and have the UltraLabel autosize its height to accommodate the height of the wrapped text.
We're migrating from a set of custom controls where we had FixedWidthVariableHeight and FixedHeightVariableWidth layout options. I really need to find a way of achieving FixedWidthVariableHeight.
Please don't tell me I have to roll this myself and measure text. :)
Thanks for your help!Jim Honeycutt
Hi Jim,
The control doesn't natively support this.But there is a kind of sneaky way you can do it.
What you do is derive a control from UltraLabel and override the constructor and set AutoSizeHeightOnly to true.
class UltraLabelWithAutoHeight : UltraLabel { public UltraLabelWithAutoHeight() : base() { this.AutoSizeHeightOnly = true; } }
Note that the designer will not let you change the Width of the control once AutoSize is set to true. So this is a little inconvenientto work with at design-time. But it's easier than measuring the text yourself.
I'm having this problem with 2012.1 but when I try to inherit and set AutoSizeHeightOnly I get a "Deprecated" message, which says to use MaxSize and AutoSize combined to achive this behavior... but actually I couldn't get it to work... where's the trick?