auto-expanding text boxes

Lexorin · #1 03-23-2005, 10:53 AM

Anyone know how to get text boxes to automatically expand based on their content? I can't seem to find a diffrence between any two I look at.

**Zonx** · #2 03-25-2005, 09:31 AM

Textboxes can't resize based on their content

However, the Composit object can shrink to fit and glue objects together. Its pretty buggy though. Doesn't like to update if the contents change while the window is open.

Lexorin · #3 03-26-2005, 07:47 PM

Hmmm, I'm trying to crush down the examine boxes a bit. When I look at them in the UI builder the description section of recipes Only fits a line and a few pixel of it's text. In game it expands to fit any amount of text the game chooses to dump into it. I want to do the same with the name of the item but I can't get it to work.

**Zonx** · #4 03-29-2005, 07:46 AM

Examine windows are hard-coded to resize like that. Its actually kind-of annoing since the server assumes the window uses a frame like the default window.

Luckely for you, I think all you need to solve the item name issue is to change text object's maxlines from 1 to 2. Uncheck the "Limit properties shown" box at the bottom of UIBuilder to see all the object's properties