Re: multiline label on button

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From: Gavin Maxwell
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 03:47

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You could use WinDrawChars to do this as well - then you don't have to worry
about Label controls - but you will have to worry about updating the text as
required.


Gavin.

Ben Combee <combee@techwood.org> wrote in message
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> In article <30890494.0209040714.52ea024d@posting.google.com>,
> david_ladanyi@yahoo.com says...
> > Hi
> >
> > I can't figure out how to put a multiline label on a button. I've
> > tried inserting \n, \r, \r\n, \n\r both at design time in Constructor
> > and at run time using the CtlSetLabel function and nothing works. The
> > \n and \r sequences translate to little ASCII squares, not new lines.
> > How can I get this to work? I'm testing with the emulator only - could
> > that be the problem?
>
> Buttons don't support multiline labels.  If you've seen them, they've
> been buttons with no label, with a separate Label object overlapping
> them.
> --
> Ben Combee <bcombee@metrowerks.com>
> CodeWarrior for Palm OS technical lead
> Get help at http://palmoswerks.com/

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