Description Christoph Laeubrich 2021-12-01 10:21:57 EST

This is one of the most annoying things that has bitten me to often so I'd open a bug for it now.

Given I construct a label and it is part of a control with layout, it keeps its *initial text size*.

For simplicity consider the label is empty by default, and changes e.g. by a button click, then it seems that the button has no effect as the label never changes (as its initial size is zero).

What works is doing the following:

label.setText(String.valueOf(sum));
label.requestLayout();

but this is really useless boilerplate, the label should simply be requesting the layout whenever its current text != new text (or simply always when setText is called, whatever is easier).

This is similar to Bug 577140