Re: VB6 - Label - force single-line display?

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From: Jan Hyde (StellaDrinker_at_REMOVE.ME.uboot.com)
Date: 02/26/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:46:49 +0000

"Robert" <noone@nowhere.com>'s wild thoughts were released
on Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:28:03 +0100 bearing the following
fruit:

>Hello,
>
>does anyone know how to force a label to display its contents single-line
>(even when this means cutting of text at the end?
>My label is just high enough for 1 text line, WordWrap is false, and still
>the second word would wrap to the (invisible) second line if it's too long!
>

You could set AutoSize = True, WordWrap = false and then
manually set the width

Label1.Caption = "This is a long piece of text in a label
control"
Label1.Width = 400

or you could put the label in a container and let the label
autosize. 

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Jan Hyde (MVP - Visual Basic)
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