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Hi, all.

I'm sure this is a very basic question but I can't seem to find the answer in the docs or the forum:

I need some buttons with names that are fairly long (2-3 words). The buttons have to be squarish in shape, not elongated. How do I get the button name (or label?) to wrap and use the full height of the button???

Thanks!

Hi Michel ~

one way would be:

set the label of button "test" to "This is a very" & CR & "verbose caption"

Regards,
Kai

You can even do it from the inspector interface:
What I usually do is type the long button name I want in the tooltip field (which is a bit larger) and then cut&paste it to the button name field.

Cheers.

Thanks for two excellent suggestions.

I did notice a weird (?) behaviour in testing out these suggestions: if I use the tooltip area to prepare the text (say two words on two separate lines) and then copy and paste this text into the label area, everything works fine.

However, if I cut and paste into the name area, then what I get is this: word1_word2!

Weird, non?

But thanks again for the suggestions. They answer my question.

Not weird - control names may not contain control characters such as carriage returns or linefeeds.

So it looks as if Revolutions replaces these illegal characters with legal ones...

HTH,
Kai