Texts in controls are not hidden when too long

[antieso]

Hi everybody,

I'm sorry I'm a newbie on GBPVR and I don't know if forgot some parameter but the controls' texts are often too long to be completely in the control area and a part is displayed under the control.

I must say that I use the french translation.

Is that possible to avoid this problem ?

Thanks in advance for your help

[Jeff]

What skin are you using? The length of the text field is specified by the skin.

Jeff

[antieso]

I use the default blue theme...

[sub]

The text is automatically clipped to the box defined in the skin, but I'm guessing I've defined some of those boxes a bit too big.

There is no easy way to test each screen for the maximum displayable data, unless I happen to have real data which is long in those fields. Post a screen and I'll try to fix it up for the next release.

[Fatman_do]

I'm sorry I'm a newbie on GBPVR and I don't know if forgot some parameter but the controls' texts are often too long to be completely in the control area and a part is displayed under the control.

It is a "word wrap" type of issue where the string is longer than the box width. If you decrease the vertical height of the field, you shouldn't see wrapping text, just clipping.

In the Main Menu skin.xml file, find and change these lines:

What it is now:

Code:

<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,8" size="[B][color=Red]155,34[/color][/B]" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" />

Suggested change:

Code:

<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,8" size="[B][color=Red]140,25[/color][/B]" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" />

(Decreasing length makes it so text does not protrude beyond button image, but increases the amount clipped.)
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[MixMan]

In the skin X-Theme I made the buttons wide enough, so German or French translation would fit in the buttons.
Buttons are also transparent, so changing background would also work good.

I would also like to thank Fatman_do for his excellent work with helping out in this forum :-)

[sub]

It is a "word wrap" type of issue where the string is longer than the box width. If you decrease the vertical height of the field, you shouldn't see wrapping text, just clipping.

In the Main Menu skin.xml file, find and change these lines:

What it is now:

Code:

<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,8" size="[B][COLOR=red]155,34[/COLOR][/B]" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" />

Suggested change:

Code:

<DrawText text="@buttonText" loc="15,8" size="[B][COLOR=red]140,25[/COLOR][/B]" textStyle="ButtonText" align="Left" />

(Decreasing length makes it so text does not protrude beyond button image, but increases the amount clipped.)
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Cheers, I've made this change to the master skin.

[antieso]

Thanks a lot for your help !!!

That's perfect now !