UltraTextEditor Text Alignment Issue

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Larry posted over 13 years ago

I am using an UltraTextEditor in a gridbaglayout panel. its is set to dock so that the UTE expands to fill the space given to it.

I have set multiline on so that it does actually fill the space and have set Text Align to middle and centre, hoping that the text will sit in the middle of the UTE in the same way that it does with a label.

However it doesn't, the text sits in the middle of the horizontal axis, but at the top of the box. Is there anything I can do to make it sit in the middle of the vertical axis in the same way an ultralabel works?

My application resizes the windows based on the screen size, and on big displays it looks a bit rubbish.

I am also looking for a way to get the font to resize based on the size of the UTE control so it propotionally readjusts according to the space it has.

Thanks in advance

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Larry posted over 13 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

I'd updated the base class of my ultraTextEditor and the new base class was forcing the AlwaysInEditMode flag to true.

Thank you for helping me out, the control now works again.
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 13 years ago in reply to Larry

There's not much I can do with a couple of vb files. In order to do anything helpful here, I would need a complete sample project that I could run.

But based on your last post, it sounds like the control is never leaving edit mode.Remember - the code I posted here will not work unless the UltraTextEditor is not in edit mode.

Did you set AlwaysInEditMode to true?

Me.Label.AlwaysInEditMode = True
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Larry posted over 13 years ago in reply to Larry

I can upload my controls source code if this will help with the investigation, you'll have to tell me how though
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Larry posted over 13 years ago in reply to Mike Saltzman

Hi Mike

Thank you for your help so far

The code you posted was more like the code I had originally (having copied it from the grid example)

what seems to be happening is the drawParams.Element is only ever getting the values

Infragistics.Win.UltraWinEditors.UltraTextEditorUIElement

and

Infragistics.Win.EditorWithTextUIElement

it did use to get EditorWithTextDisplayTextUIElement but this is no longer turning up, so I never get to return DrawPhase.BeforeDrawForeground

I dont know what I did to upset it !
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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 13 years ago in reply to Larry

Hi,

Hmm... are you sure this was working before? This doesn't seem right to me.I don't think the UltraTextEditorUIElementis what actually draws the text.

The EditorWithTextDisplayTextUIElement is the element you want.

Also... I doubt this has anything to do with the issue, but it's not good practice to set AppearanceData properties inside the GetPhasesToFilter method. And in this case, it's redundant.

#Region "IUIElementDrawFilter Members"

    Private Function IUIElementDrawFilter_DrawElement(ByVal drawPhase As DrawPhase, ByRef drawParams As UIElementDrawParams) As Boolean Implements IUIElementDrawFilter.DrawElement
        drawParams.AppearanceData.TextVAlign = VAlign.Middle
        Return False
    End Function

    Private Function IUIElementDrawFilter_GetPhasesToFilter(ByRef drawParams As UIElementDrawParams) As DrawPhase Implements IUIElementDrawFilter.GetPhasesToFilter
        If TypeOf drawParams.Element Is EditorWithTextDisplayTextUIElement Then
            Return DrawPhase.BeforeDrawForeground
        End If

        Return DrawPhase.None
    End Function

#End Region

End Class