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c#winformsflowlayoutpanellinklabel
tom
tom

Reputation: 5001

issue with flow layout panel / link labels

i am setting text to a link label and adding these labels to a flow layout panel. It seems to be chopping off the ends of the link labels and as such i have labels with only 3/4's of the text. Does anyone know why this might be?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3531

Answers (3)

Pondidum
Pondidum

Reputation: 11617

I'm not sure if you are adding the LinkLabels to the FlowLayoutPanel through code, but there is a property you can set to make them work properly.

    var link = new LinkLabel();
    link.Text = "Some really long string";
    link.AutoSize = true;   //This is really important!

    FlowLayoutPanel1.Controls.Add(link);

If you don't set each LinkLabels AutoSize property, they just chop off any text that goes further than their default bounds.

Edit: My Testapp consists of placing a FlowLayoutPanel on the form, and a button to click, with the above code in the OnClick handler. Nothing else was changed on the form.

Without the AutoSize property set to true, I had the same problem you described. Setting it to True fixes it for me at least :)

Upvotes: 3

V4Vendetta
V4Vendetta

Reputation: 38200

Can you check the LinkArea property of the link label .. the default is about 25. I think you will have to set it to the maximum value you are using to display as text for the link label.

Upvotes: 0

Fenton
Fenton

Reputation: 250832

I have tested this by dropping a FlowLayoutPanel on a blank form and dropping in many LinkLabels. The width of the FlowLayoutPanel is narrow and I have tried adding Text properties to the link labels to break the layout.

Even putting text with no spaces in the link label doesn't cause the issue you describe - the text simply wraps around onto the next line.

Do you have any properties set on the link labels? This is the only way I could get this issue to occur.

I changed the size of one of the link labels to a fixed size smaller than the text and this pretty much did exactly what you report. I would suggest that the Width property of your link label is smaller than the text you are displaying.

Upvotes: 0

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