Draw text?

[ibe]

I have a card in my app that can have over 100 text labels all around the window. My question is do I really have to use Label objects? I would prefer just to dynamically draw the text in the appropriate locations like in Windows you can use the DrawText() function to specify an area of the screen where to draw the text.

Or should I have a large empty graphic as the background of the window. If so, how would I draw text into it. I find it hard to believe something like this isn't possible.

[dunbarx]

In HC you could use fields or bitmapped text. I used to do this, but found no benefit. Fields are so much more flexible and easier to manage.

What do you see as the advantages in such a thing? Better, what are the disadvantages?

Craig Newman

[ibe]

I'm implementing a calendar interface. When the user resizes the window I can easily calculate where all the texts should be placed (day numbers, event names, etc.). It might be that there are only a few event texts that need to be shown or there could be a hundred. If I have only 2 events showing should I hide the other 98 labels? Seems a bit awkward.

If you feel this is easily accomplished using fields could you give a suggestion on how to name them? Should I have an array of labels?

[kotikoti]

Ide,
You could make use of the tooltip item to contain the "label" text and via script create the display labels for the individual object as required.
You can post a sample of your requirement and we could suggest on how best to achieve this too.

[ibe]

The basic look I am going for is

each day can have zero or several tags appearing in it.

[kotikoti]

Ibe,
How I would approach this is, since I already have the calendar item drawn and I know the "dates" that have events associated, I would simply clone a text label, change its value to the content I desire and associate it with the date item (use move) to move it to an appropriate location before doing same for next item with a event.
will put together a small file with similar a implementation.
Kotikoti