How to change font size in lblbox from within?

[Guest shelly21]

I'm having a slight issue trying to figure out how to change the font size within a lbl.box within the program.

 

The box will display some text depending on which button is pressed. And certain button produces a longer text that would not fit (well) in the label box. So when I try to use lblbox.text.font.size = 8, It doesn't work as that property is ReadOnly.

 

I could change the font colour easily, but not font size....

 

Is there another way to do this?

 

:confused:

[Guest Agent]

' EDIT I see your using .NET. Sorry buddy! ;)

 

It works fine for me! I used:

Option Explicit

Private Sub Form_Load()

   Label1.Font.Size = 18
   
End Sub

[divil]

Take a look at the Font class constructor. One of the methods is to specify a base font and a new size, so doing something like this:

 

Label.Font = New Font(Label.Font, 18)

 

Ought to do it for you. Something like that anyway.

[Guest shelly21]

That did it.

 

Strangely I had the solution in my dream last night.

 

Not the actual solution but I was dreaming about looking at the init. section to see how the label box was created in the first place.

Scary isn't it? :)

[divil]

I reckon when you dream about code, that means you're spending far too much time coding ;)