quick question about creating buttons at runtime

[Kimmy4]

Hi guys,

I am using .net compact framework 2.0.

This may be an easy question to answer but i cant seem to solve it myself. I am creating a button at run-time and i need the text on the button to appear on two lines. I want the button to say

Select
Image

When i say Button1.Text = "Select Image" it puts it on 1 line (and my button is not wide enough to display it on one line), and when i try
Button1.Text = "Select" & controlchars.newline & "Image", it never displays the image part of the text no matter how big i make the height of the button.

Can anybody tell me how to get the text on the button like i want it displayed above? And why none of my earlier attempts have worked.

Thanks in advance for any help.

[jmcilhinney]

This doesn't really solve your problem but I just tried setting the text to a multiline string at design time and that didn't work either. It doesn't look like a CF Button actually renders a line break as a line break, but rather tries to render the characters themselves and fails because they have no visual representation.

[Kimmy4]

Ok thanks for the quick reply.
I guess i'll just have to shorten the text.

Thanks again

[AIS4U]

Kimmy4:

I think it is the width you need to adjust and not the height.
And, it will also depend on the size of the font you are using.

If I use the following code I get "Select Image" on one line:

Me.Button1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(78, 56)
Me.Button1.TabIndex = 0
Me.Button1.Text = "Select Image"

If I reduce the width from 78 to 68 "Select Image" appears on two lines:

Me.Button1.Size = New System.Drawing.Size(68, 56)
Me.Button1.TabIndex = 0
Me.Button1.Text = "Select Image"

I'm not sure if this will solve your problem or not.

Good Luck

[Kimmy4]

Is that in the compact framework? When i adjust the width it jus cuts off part of the text from the beginning and end, keeping it all on one line!

[AIS4U]

Kimmy4:

No. Sorry, its VS2005.

And, it doesn't work the same in net compact framework 2.0.

[Kimmy4]

Ok. Thanks.