Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

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Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Grovkillen » Mon May 22, 2023 7:19 am

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Dialog>Dialog1
object Dialog1: TForm
  BorderIcons = [biSystemMenu]
  Caption = 'CustomDialog'
  ClientHeight = 200
  ClientWidth = 400
  TextHeight = 13
  object Label1: TLabel
    Left = 10
    Top = 45
    Width = 80
    Height = 20
    Caption = 'Label1'
    ParentFont = False
  end
  object MSButton1: tMSButton
    Left = 10
    Top = 10
    Width = 80
    Height = 25
    Caption = 'MSButton1'
    DoBrowse = False
    BrowseStyle = fbOpen
    ParentFont = False
  end
  object MSMemo1: tMSMemo
    Left = 100
    Top = 10
    Width = 180
    Height = 100
    Text = 'MSMemo1'
    ParentFont = False
  end
  object CheckBox1: TCheckBox
    Left = 300
    Top = 10
    Width = 100
    Height = 20
    Caption = 'CheckBox1'
    ParentFont = False
  end
end
EndDialog>Dialog1
Show>Dialog1,r
If you change the TextHeight to 10 instead of 13 the dialog will be bigger, change it to 20 (as an example) the dialog will be smaller. This is done by adding "ParentFont = False" to every element that you want to scale. The downside is that you cannot (at least I cannot) change the scale using the SetDialogProperty command.

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GetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,TextHeight,FOUND_TEXT_HEIGHT
//FOUND_TEXT_HEIGHT=NO_SUCH_PROPERTY
Let>ME=%Script%

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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:43 pm

Is it possible to make the property accessible?

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GetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,TextHeight,FOUND_TEXT_HEIGHT
//FOUND_TEXT_HEIGHT=NO_SUCH_PROPERTY
SetDialogProperty>Dialog1,,TextHeight,10
Let>ME=%Script%

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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Dorian (MJT support) » Thu Feb 22, 2024 2:25 pm

I have passed this on to dev.
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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Thu Feb 22, 2024 3:10 pm

TextHeight is not actually a usable property - it's some kind of low level property used by the system for scaling but not actually usable or settable by the developer. It seems to be visible as a read only property which is why it's chucked out by the form designer, but you'll note if you edit the dialog that it doesn't show up in the property list. Reality is we should probably remove it completely from the output dialog definition.
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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:11 pm

All right, thanks for the input Marcus. :)
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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Grovkillen » Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:53 pm

But please don't remove it because I have some scripts that are still relying on it to exist :oops:
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Re: Scaling dialog based on TextHeight

Post by Grovkillen » Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:05 pm

Okay, today I updated my scripts and uses another approach to get the scaling right. See this thread here: viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10828#p48757

I'm no longer using the TextHeight... 8)
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