Text length

[Andy]

Hi,

Me again, sorry.

I have a program with several checkboxes, along side them each is a combo box and finally static text.

The person I wrote this for says not all the text is being displayed before the combo box.

In other words, on my machines a checkbox says:

"Warn me if the computer has not been backed up in" - and then a combo box to select the number of days.

They are seeing:
"Warn me if the computer has not been bac" - and then a combo box to select the number of days.

I'm told there screen resolution is 2550x1440, my maximum is 1280x1024.

Is there a way to "calculate" or work out on a machine the position of the combo box so that whatever screen resolution they have the text in the checkbox will not be truncated, is that possible?

I've tried the program on XP, Win7 & 8.1 on different machines and it's always fine (not truncated) for me as the attached screenshot shows.

Thanks,
Andy.

[ckoehn]

I know what you are talking about.

Would "GETTEXTSIZE window, string, varWidth, varHeight" work for you?  Compare the varWidth with your control width?

Later,
Clint

[LarryMc]

Wish it was that easy.
Suggest you read this:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd371771(v=vs.85).aspx

It discusses writing writing high DPI aware applications.

[billhsln]

Actually, you might want to check to see if the FONT you are using is available on their machine.  That could explain why it looks ok on your PC, but cuts off on theirs.  They might not have the font you are using and the font it picked to use is larger than you are allowing space for.

Bill

[Andy]

Thanks Bill and Larry,

I will check out your suggestions.

The Font being used is Arial, so nothing strange there.

Andy.