L10N: Autosize property of labels on windows forms

Lately, I was wondering why the Autosize property of label on windows forms is set to true, this is annoying and tiring if you love using windows forms designer(yucks! kidding Stick out tongue), because you often want a properly aligned controls and fixed with labels on data entry textboxes.But not until i want to loicalize these labels I realized that this is very helpful on making labels display localized text that extends more than the default text. Most of the time, English text is shorter than dannish, finnish, or scadinavian translations, sometimes its the other way around.

HTH!

Comments

# cruizer said:

well .NET 2.0 brings lots of improvements in this regard, like the TableLayoutPanel in Windows Forms. this was the main criticism with .NET 1.0/1.1, that it's hard to internationalize WinForms apps. an alternative is to use the cross-platform Gtk# library to do your GUI, since that (Gtk) is built from the ground up taking internationalization into account.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 3:58 PM

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