Centering a GUI label

[snow_leopard]

I have a simple GUI label that take a variable length of strings and creates a number of UI panels to display those strings. The problem I am having is that the hardcoded spacing causes long strings to overflow and short string to fit improperly. Is there a way to center GUI labels? For learning purposes I am trying to avoid any UDFs and would like to do everything myself.

[Subz]

Look at $SS_CENTER and $SS_CENTERIMAGE in the helpfile for centering however although you want to avoid udfs which doesn't really make much sense to me, I would highly recommend StringSize udf by Melba23, since it can work out the exact size of a label based upon font size, weight etc...

My 2 cents.

[BigDaddyO]

you can also force the font on your gui to something specific so you can guarantee the text you hard code will fit in the fields since other users can have some pretty wild fonts.  I usually only do this on really complicated gui's.

GUISetFont(8.5, 400, 0, "Consolas", $hGUI, 5)

[Zedna]

Set width of your label to the same value as width of your GUI form and set label's style to SS_CENTER.