Changing label captions

Is there anyway to avoid having the text bleed into itself like this?

Just using dcl_Control_SetCaption right before a heavy data extraction process.

Pretty sure this is Windows' fault, not OpenDCL's.

Try this inside your loop:

(dcl_Control_SetCaption 'Label "")
(dcl_Control_Redraw 'Label)
(dcl_Control_SetCaption 'Label  "My text")

Copter

Which version of OpenDCL Runtime are you using? I'm pretty sure this problem is fixed in current builds.

author=owenwengerd link=topic=933.msg4677#msg4677 date=1253636544 wrote:
Which version of OpenDCL Runtime are you using? I'm pretty sure this problem is fixed in current builds.

6.0.0.3 on 2008

author=copter link=topic=933.msg4674#msg4674 date=1253633332 wrote:
Try this inside your loop:

(dcl_Control_SetCaption 'Label "")
(dcl_Control_Redraw 'Label)
(dcl_Control_SetCaption 'Label  "My text")

Copter

Thanks Copter, that works like a charm.

Btw, just installed 6.0.0.5 and am still seeing the same behavior (before using copter's method)

I just did a quick test changing the caption manually in a modeless dialog, and it repainted correctly. It may be that your processing loop does not do allow Windows to process messages. If that's the case, the following might work as well (and use less processor time):

(dcl_Control_SetCaption 'Label  "My text")
(dcl_Control_Redraw 'Label)

Hi, thatcadguy, in my experiences I could solve this by using BackColor (for the label) -16 instead of -24.

Fred