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Winforms: Spacing between text displayed within a control may change at runtime and design-time.
| Article ID | : | 954277 |
| Last Review | : | June 11, 2008 |
| Revision | : | 1.0 |
Source: Microsoft Support
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Action
Consider the following scenarios
1. You create a new Visual Basic Windows application in Visual Studio 2005 and uncheck the “Enable Application Framework†from the Project Properties->Application Page.
2. You upgrade a Visual Basic .NET 2003 project to Visual Basic 2005.
In these scenarios you add a Control or make changes to an existing control with the AutoSize property set to false and set its width so that it is just wide enough to encapsulate the text contained within the Control.
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Result
The spacing between words in the text contained within the control may change when you run the application. For example, this may cause text contained within a label control to be wrapped to the next line, truncating the text.
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Cause
A new feature has been introduced in .NET Framework 2.0 where certain windows forms controls can render their text using either the GDI library or the newer GDI+ library. When the “Enable Application Framework†is unchecked or the project is upgraded from an earlier version of Visual Basic, the application-wide Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault is not set, so the Control.UseCompatibleTextRendering defaults to true for controls that support compatible text rendering. This makes them default to the GDI library and causes spacing between text to change for a control at design-time and at runtime.
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Resolution
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1. Set the AutoSize property of the Control to true.
2. Enable the application framework by checking the “Enable Application Framework†on the Project Properties->Application page.
3. Define a Sub Main and set the Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault to false.
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More Information
To reproduce the issue,
1. Create a new Visual Basic Windows Application in Visual Studio 2005.
2. Add a label to Form1 and change its AutoSize to false.
3. Change the label  text to a long string  and resize its width so that the width is just wide enough to encapsulate the label’s text.
4. In the Project Properties->Application page, uncheck the “Enable Application Frameworkâ€.
5. Now run the application and notice that some of the text in the label is truncated.
6. Add a new Module to the application and add the following code to the module.
    Public Sub main()
       Application.SetCompatibleTextRenderingDefault(False)
       Application.Run(New Form1())
    End Sub
7. Build and run the application, notice that the text is not truncated.
For more information on Application.SetCompatibleTextRendering, see the following MSDN article:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.setcompatibletextrenderingdefault.aspx (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.application.setcompatibletextrenderingdefault.aspx)Back to the top
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APPLIES TO
| • | Microsoft Visual Basic 2005 |
| • | Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition |
| • | Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition |
| • | Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite |
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