Infralution Support

[floele]

Hi,

I noticed a small, but somewhat annoying visual glitch when using the virtual tree. Check the following picture:



The red lines indicate the column width. If you decrease it, so that "..." is added to the text, the character spacing increases. Could you possibly fix that? It doesn't happen with usual ListViews either and it feels somewhat distracting when resizing columns.

Regards,
Florian

[Infralution]

We will take a look at the issue.
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Infralution Support

[floele]

I had a quick look at it myself now.
The problem seems to be, that you are using the DrawString-Method along with the StringTrimming enum. In this case GDI+ is doing the weired drawing. I think that you should use the TextRenderer class instead (see also http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/ViewFeedback.aspx?FeedbackID=95852).

[Infralution]

Thanks for tracking that link down. We'll be taking a look at this issue this week.
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Infralution Support

[Infralution]

We will be releasing version 3.12 soon. This will include a CompatibleTextRendering property in the Style class that enables you to choose the text rendering engine to use (false = GDI, true = GDI+). GDI handles text truncation better than GDI+ and so setting this to false will fix this glitch.
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Infralution Support

[Infralution]

Version 3.12.0 has now been released. If you set the CompatibleTextRendering property to false for the RowStyle then text truncation will behave as you want. You can set this as the default for your whole application by setting the shared (static) property Style.CompatibleTextRenderingDefault.
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Infralution Support

[floele]

Thanks for your efforts, much appreciated. I didn't get to testing it yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I do.

[floele]

Tried it now: Works great
Really feels much better this way, when resizing columns.

[floele]

I think I found a little bug now:
By default, the the ampersand (&) mnemonic-prefix character is interpreted by DrawText, so the text is displayed incorrectly in the TreeView when having a "&" in the text (which should bot be interpreted as access key).

You can fix that by adding

[Infralution]

Yes we should probably fix that since there is not really a use for displaying mnemonic in tree nodes. You can probably work around the issue for now by using && to display an & (at least this works for escaping the special meaning of & in toolstrips).
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Infralution Support

[floele]

I can work around it anyway, since I have the source code. So need to hurry with a release for me