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[Dummy1912]

Hello,

after a long search i didn't found any solution
can somebody helpme to split the long text to show at 2 lines
only when its to large

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fnt = New Font("Arial", 7)
            Dim descSize As SizeF = e.Graphics.MeasureString(tr(i).trDescr, fnt)
Dim replaceDesc As String
            replaceDesc = tr(i).trDescr
            replaceDesc = Strings.Replace(replaceDesc, " ", vbCrLf) 'example from google

 If replaceDesc.Length > 70 Then
e.Graphics.DrawString(replaceDesc , fnt, Brushes.Black, (sSize.Width * 26 + sPoint.X) - (strSize.Width + sSize.Width * 26) / 80, (sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200), SF)
Else
e.Graphics.DrawString(tr(i).trDescr, fnt, Brushes.Black, (sSize.Width * 26 + sPoint.X) - (strSize.Width + sSize.Width * 26) / 80, (sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200), SF)
 End If

problem is that it split almost every word :(
i just want to split the line that has more then 70 length of text

anyone?

Thanks

[CodenStuff]

I found this annoying to do when using drawstring myself in the past and I'm still not sure how to do it in a fool proof way.

I did a bit of searching and found this function that may help point you in the right direction:

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private void panel1_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
  string header2 = "This is a much, much longer Header";
  string description = "This is a description of the header.";

  RectangleF header2Rect = new RectangleF();
  using (Font useFont = new Font("Gotham Medium", 28, FontStyle.Bold))
  {
    header2Rect.Location = new Point(30, 105);
    header2Rect.Size = new Size(600, ((int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(header2, useFont, 600, StringFormat.GenericTypographic).Height));
    e.Graphics.DrawString(header2, useFont, Brushes.Black, header2Rect);
  }

  RectangleF descrRect = new RectangleF();
  using (Font useFont = new Font("Gotham Medium", 28, FontStyle.Italic))
  {
    descrRect.Location = new Point(30, (int)header2Rect.Bottom);
    descrRect.Size = new Size(600, ((int)e.Graphics.MeasureString(description, useFont, 600, StringFormat.GenericTypographic).Height));
    e.Graphics.DrawString(description.ToLower(), useFont, SystemBrushes.WindowText, descrRect);
  }

}

Hope it helps

[Dummy1912]

yea i found this also
but didn't worked what i needed :(

i didn't get it at the location i wanted my text to show
or didn't cut the text or even showed it completed.

sad to say i also find it annoying


Edit:

i did try this and seems it cut the text but don't show the completed string :( at the second line
any ideas?

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Dim descSize As SizeF = e.Graphics.MeasureString(tr(i).trDescr, fnt)
                Dim Rectf As RectangleF = New Rectangle(sSize.Width * 25.2 + sPoint.X - sSize.Width / 2, sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200, descSize.Width / 2, sSize.Height)
                e.Graphics.DrawString(tr(i).trDescr, fnt, Brushes.Black, Rectf, SF)

if i use this

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                Dim Rectf As RectangleF = New Rectangle(sSize.Width * 25.2 + sPoint.X - sSize.Width / 2, sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200, descSize.Width / 2, descSize.Height / 2)

it seems it cut off the string from the bottom lol

also tried:

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                    Dim Rectf As RectangleF = New Rectangle(sSize.Width * 25.2 + sPoint.X - sSize.Width / 2, sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200, descSize.Width - sPoint.X, sSize.Height)

but it seems it shows 2 lines of string but one of the strings on the previous line don't show the completed string :(

[CodenStuff]

Where or on what are you drawing these strings. Can you show us a picture or something?

[Dummy1912]

just to print a page

Edit:

We have finally found the solution
we played with the code and come up with this

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replaceDesc = Strings.Replace(replaceDesc, vbNewLine, " ")
                    Dim Rectf As RectangleF = New Rectangle(sSize.Width * 25.2 + sPoint.X - sSize.Width / 2, sSize.Height / 5 + sPoint.Y + 200, descSize.Width - sPoint.X - 95, sSize.Height + 5)
                    e.Graphics.DrawString(replaceDesc, fnt, Brushes.Black, Rectf, SF)

and seems it did the trick

Thanks for the support ;)