Combobox sizing limitation

[spannerman]

Hey,

Im having some trouble with the sizing of combobox's (CVS HEAD and earlier versions iirc). Basically the selected ListboxTextItem's text is not fully displayed correctly, eg.



Notice how the lower section of the 'g' is clipped. Changing the height of the combobox changes the drop down list area and does not affect the area of the selected item. You can not change the size of ListboxTextItem's themselves. Im using the standard "tahoma.ttf".

Any ideas?

[lindquist]

modify the look'n'feel to size the editbox as you'd like.

[spannerman]

Aah ok thanks.

I changed the value of the TaharezLook/Combobox, this part:

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<!--
    ***************************************************
        TaharezLook/Combobox
    ***************************************************
    -->

                <Dim type="Height" >
                    <FontDim type="LineSpacing">
                        <DimOperator op="Multiply">
                            <AbsoluteDim value="1.8" />
                        </DimOperator>
                    </FontDim>
                </Dim>


And that does it.

Question: if I wanted to use a larger font, would I have to make a custom version of the Combobox looknfeel for each differently sized font? If so, its a shame you cant just grap the ComboEditbox and change it dynamically in code.

[lindquist]

I think the problem is that the editbox looknfeel clips the text to rect inside it's frame imagery, and the combobox sets the entire editbox to 1.5*fontH. so the editbox's text area is smaller than 1.5*fontH. something like 1.5*fontH-top-bottom.

You could add the sizes of those images in the combobox looknfeel...

Another thing you could do was to create a property to hold the magic constant (1.8) which could then easily be changed from layouts and code.

[spannerman]

Ok thanks Lindquist.

[vimes]

Aah ok thanks.

I changed the value of the TaharezLook/Combobox, this part:

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<!--
    ***************************************************
        TaharezLook/Combobox
    ***************************************************
    -->

                <Dim type="Height" >
                    <FontDim type="LineSpacing">
                        <DimOperator op="Multiply">
                            <AbsoluteDim value="1.8" />
                        </DimOperator>
                    </FontDim>
                </Dim>


And that does it.

I had the same issue and made this change in TaharezLook.looknfeel but I saw no changes in my layout... I even tried extreme values like 2.5 without any effect is this solution still viable with CEGUI 0.4.1 ?