button text vertical alignment au3 v3.3.14.5 on W7/64

[GillesMaisonneuve]

Good morning,

 

I am trying to align a two-line text in a button so that it would be centered in the button but can't succeed to do it for the vertical part.

Can someone tell me what I do wrong ?

Here is my code:

$btn3 = GUICtrlCreateButton("Execute " & @LF & " file 1", 100, 65, 60, 50, _
                                BitOr($BS_CENTER,$BS_BOTTOM,$BS_MULTILINE))

and here is the resulting layout I get in my window.

I tried to follow the help, made a lot of different parameter combinations (here it's `$BS_BOTTOM`, but I tried `$BS_VCENTER` and `$BS_TOP`), still get the same result : vertical alignement is a no go for me.

Can someone help ?

TIA

Gilles

Edited March 29, 2019 by GillesMaisonneuve

[water]

BitOR($BS_VCENTER,$BS_MULTILINE)

Works fine here. AutoIt 3.3.14.4 and 3.3.15.0, Windows 7.

Edited March 29, 2019 by water

[Melba23]

GillesMaisonneuve,

Even better - just use the MULTILINE style on its own:

#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <ButtonConstants.au3>

$hGUI = GUICreate("Test", 500, 500)

$cButton = GUICtrlCreateButton("Execute " & @CRLF & " file 1", 100, 65, 60, 50, $BS_MULTILINE)

GUISetState()

While 1

    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $GUI_EVENT_CLOSE
            Exit
    EndSwitch

WEnd

But you appear to be using coloured buttons - which might be the root of your problem. There is a bug deep within AutoIt which means that colouring buttons leads to all sorts of problems, such as capturing the {ENTER} key and messing with the various styles. This bug is NOT going to be fixed so it is recommended NOT to use coloured buttons. Try removing the colour code and see if the vertical alignment works then - if so then you will have to choose which you want: colour or alignment.

M23

[water]

This leads us to the requirement to always post a full reproducer script

[GillesMaisonneuve]

Hello to all of you.

Thank you very much for you answers.

Actually you were right, the colouring was the problem.

Three kinds of instruction were causing the problem:

;~     GUICtrlSetDefColor(0x00004F)

;~     GUICtrlSetBkColor($btn3, 0XCFBFCF)
;~     GUICtrlSetColor($btn3, $COLOR_BLACK)

Now the text alignment is all right. (I kept the coloring for the other buttons and the window with no problem). (see image)

I already notices that colour rendering was peculiar on my screen : some colours won't display, a close one (white for some pale colors for instance) would be instead. I did not think that would be related to other bugs.

Too bad for me, I hoped to use colors in my GUIs. But it's not of deep matter.

 

@Watter: right I should have included more of my code. But then again the `GUICtrlSetDefColor(0x00004F)` instruction was many lines away from the buttons so that would have required a lot of ugly code to be provided to your reading... ;-)

 

@Melba23: when you say that this colour scheme is NOT going to be fixed, you mean never ever ?

 

Have a good day, all of you.

Gilles.

[Melba23]

GillesMaisonneuve,

See here - never ever, even if you say "pretty please".

M23

[BrewManNH]

Instead of using colored buttons, you might want to try using one of the button skinning UDFs in the Example scripts forum here. You'll get much better looking buttons than just a flat colored one.