Label background fill

[Brett Brown]

Hi all, Is it possible to have a label where the background fill follows the text? Say multiple lines of text in the label, each a different length and the background fill steps to follow text length. Not just a rectangle of fill to cover the whole label. Make sense?

[Anonymous]

This isn't possible now!
It would have been nice if it was, though!

[Barry Kelly]

Brett wrote:
Hi all, Is it possible to have a label where the background fill follows the text? Say multiple lines of text in the label, each a different length and the background fill steps to follow text length. Not just a rectangle of fill to cover the whole label. Make sense?

There is a setting for "Opaque" text in the lable tool where you can set the background colour.
It doesn't follow the text exactly but instead fills the entire lable frame.
Not exactly what you are after but as close as you will get I think.
Barry.

[Brett Brown]

Why was this thread moved? It was a GDL question for the GDL section.

[Barry Kelly]

Barry wrote:
Not exactly what you are after but as close as you will get I think.

Brett wrote:
Why was this thread moved? It was a GDL question for the GDL section.

As close as you will get without GDL that is.
It is possible in GDL if you request the length of each line of text and add a fill that is the same size.
It would be nice if RICHTEXT had the option for displaying the fill but from what I can see in the manual it doesn't.
Barry.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Labels can be simple Text Labels or the Label can be a GDL Object.
From your original post it was not really possible to decide that you are actually asking a GDL question. You very talking about a problem, but did not mention GDL or script or anything.
So I moved it to another thread.
But it seems to me that another Moderator has handled the situation and moved it back here, now that it is clear that it is indeed a GDL question.

[Jochen Suehlo]

Which Globals (in an individual label) are for the On/Off of the opaque background fill and for the color of this fill?

[Anonymous]

Joachim wrote:
Which Globals (in an individual label) are for the On/Off of the opaque background fill and for the color of this fill?

Joachim, if they exist, they are undocumented. Or it is a hard coded feature.
We already asked GS on June 2007, remember Frank Beister's "Quo vadis GDL".

I feel only GS can answer this one.
Zsolt, please, is there something new?

[Laszlo Nagy]

Here are the links of the new GDL features of the last 4 versions, but I don't see any LABEL background related stuff in there.
I think what would be best is to have the ability to get the value of any setting you set in the Settings Dialog or the Info Box in the form of GDL Global Variables.

http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/LibDevGuide/G...

http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/10/LibDe...

http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/11/LibDe...

http://download.graphisoft.com/ftp/techsupport/documentation/developer_docs/BasicLibraryDoc/12/LibDe...

[Anonymous]

laszlonagy wrote:
I think what would be best is to have the ability to get the value of any setting you set in the Settings Dialog or the Info Box in the form of GDL Global Variables

May GS hear you, Laszlo. 😉