[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: text clipping in Label - how to prevent?

["Erik Johnson" <ejohnson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Doh... It was my problem.  My base edit part class was doing things that
weren't correct for the new edit part/figure resulting in setting the layout
constraints/size incorrectly.

As far as using a Label with text + image, the reason I wasn't doing that in
the first place was because I needed to override paintFigure to draw a few
extra lines & colors to give the figure the apperance of a flag.  I was able
to achieve the same result though by subclassing Label and overriding
paintFigure, so I will probably just take that approach rather than
needlessly creating composite figures.

Thanks,
Erik


"Pratik Shah" <ppshah@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:d1qufd$qun$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I take it that by clipped you mean the text is truncated (i.e., an
ellipsis
> is shown at its end since not all of it fits in available space)?  That
> happens when the label is not sized to be as big as it wants to be.  I am
> not sure why that is happening in your case though.
>
> It seems you're going in a round-about way for what you want to achieve.
> Maybe a simpler approach will make things easier for you.  Why don't you
try
> something like this?
>
> Label flagFigure = new Label("ThisIsALongerLabel",
> Images.getImage("flagpole.gif"));
>
>
> "Erik Johnson" <ejohnson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:d1qh57$cue$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > This I think is a pretty basic question, but for some reason I cannot
get
> > this to work properly.
> >
> > I'm creating a custom Figure-based class that draws "flags".  The flag
> uses
> > an GIF image (Label) for the flag pole and another Label with the flag
> text.
> > I use a horizontal ToolbarLayout.  I have the figure working properly
but
> I
> > cannot disable text clipping on the label.  What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Code:
> >  public FlagFigure() {
> >   super();
> >   IFigure flagPole = new Label(Images.getImage("flagpole.gif"));
> >   IFigure bookmarkLabel = new Label("ThisIsALongerLabel");
> >   setLayoutManager(new ToolbarLayout(true));
> >   bookmarkLabel.setBorder(new MarginBorder(15, 2, 0, 0));
> >   add(flagPole);
> >   add(bookmarkLabel);
> >  }
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Erik
> >
> >
> >
>
>