SOLVED: Force string to full view

Hi,

Hi Oleg

Hi Aaron,

Here's a sample that *almost* works. I've noticed something that appears to be a bug however. The PropertyGridItem ignores the DrawTextWordBreak format when the item has focus. 

Also, I can't get the line count to match the word break exactly in all cases...my fudge number 5 can show 2 lines when only 1 is required when the text is near the edge of the first line (without wrapping). However changing it to 4 is worse (the wrapping can occur, but there is not enough space to show all of the item text).

Lastly, it appears that the wrapping doesn't properly occur in the control when you get over 2 lines with a long string with no spaces (like you path...maybe a bug in the control).

You can try the attached example and see if you have more success.

uploads/20080724_170827_PropGridItemRes.zip

Hi Aaron,

I did try your string, and it *almost* works. I think the code is useful for illustrating a problem with the CJ word wrapping - it only splits at space characters. This may just be the behaviour of the DrawText/DrawTextEx API though (if that is what CJ uses to draw the text to the screen), so I wonder if there is much they can do about it though.

The code is also useful for illustrating another problem - when a row is selected DrawTextWordBreak is ignored.

Personally, I think that VariableItemsHeight=True should mean just that - that each row can have its own height, but not be automatically calculated. If a user types 10 lines of text, I might only want to show 3 (for  example). But it would be very useful if the PropertyGridItem had an AutoHeight property (or similar). When True the row would be sized to fit the text. Of course this would require proper word-breaking at not just spaces, but also slashes, dashes, (others?).