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Resolved StaticText Object with word wrap

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  1. Jeff Hamilton
    Jeff Hamilton
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  3. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 13:59 PM UTC

I am building a new logon window and need to add a length of text that wraps 3-4 lines. This would be easy in Visual Studio and supported by the textbox objects, but in PowerBuilder I do not see this option with the StaticText object. Is this expected behavior for StaticText object and is there any way to get it to wrap?

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René Ullrich
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  1. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 14:07 PM UTC
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Static text control automatically wraps if the width of control is to small. But you have to increase the height. 

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Jeff Hamilton
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  1. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 15:34 PM UTC
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This does seem to work. Now if the control would scale dynamically if the main form is changed and keep the text wrapped.

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Kevin Ridley
  1. Kevin Ridley
  2. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 15:44 PM UTC
Check out my elevate session on PFC Resize Without the PFC and code on codexchange:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPAnRMC-12c&t=52s

https://community.appeon.com/index.php/codeexchange/powerbuilder/268-pfc-resize-without-pfc#310
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John Fauss
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  1. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 14:16 PM UTC
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Also, if you modify the text after manually resizing the control, it will change back to a single line (this might be why this class is called a "single-line" edit control), and you'll have to resize it once again.

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René Ullrich
  1. René Ullrich
  2. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 14:21 PM UTC
But singleline edit is not the same as static text ;-)
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John Fauss
  1. John Fauss
  2. Wednesday, 17 January 2024 14:32 PM UTC
Whoops! You are correct, Rene. My bad. Thanks for calling me out on my faux pas.
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