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healy
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healy asked on 07 May 2007, 09:21 PM
When adding items to a combo box, is there a word wrap feature for the item's DescriptionText? I notice the example wraps the text "manually" (by putting in their own \r\n).
If not, i could wrap the text by measuring out lines of text based on font size and inserting my own \r\n blahblahblah, but, this feature would be nice for a future release.

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Jordan
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answered on 08 May 2007, 08:39 AM
Hello Michael,

Thank you for your interest in our WinForms tools. Indeed, text wrapping is not automatic in the current version, but this feature is in our ToDo list. I think that we will be able to implement it in the next major version.

Thank you for your suggestion and feedback.

 
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answered on 14 Jul 2009, 02:52 AM
did this get implemented? because I've searched the documentation and can't find any information on how to do this!

I found a property buried deep, deep inside the Element Hierarchy editor for a listboxitem, however i am generating the items at runtime, and need to know how to set each item to wrap text.

thanks!

EDIT: I am referring to the ListBox, not the combobox control.

If the listbox can't do this, what control would you recommend for binding to a retrieved list of items, such as recent twitter posts, where i can alternate the background of each item?
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Boyko Markov
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answered on 17 Jul 2009, 11:15 AM
Hello SelArom,

Unfortunately, this feature is still not implemented in RadListBox. However I have prepared a very simple project for you which demonstrates how to achieve the desired behavior with a few lines of code, as the TextWrap feature is built in the TextPrimitive element which we use to render the text in our controls.

I have used the latest version of RadControls for WinForms to prepare the project.

Do not hesitate to write me back if you need more information.


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Tim DiPaula
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answered on 23 Oct 2009, 06:53 PM
When I follow the code example provided the height of the listbox item is very large.  Is there a method to set the height to the size of the text when it is wrapped.  See my attached image for the example.
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Martin Vasilev
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answered on 29 Oct 2009, 01:58 PM
Hello Tim DiPaula,

Thank you for writing. Although I have not managed to reproduce the described issue, I want to let you know that we have improved the TextPrimitive TextWrap functionality and the improvement will be present in the upcoming release - Q3 2009. It will be available next week but if you still cannot wait for it please, create a new support ticket and send me a small example project that demonstrates the undesired height. This will allow me to investigate your case and provide further assistance.

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