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Beginner Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

For some reason, rather than show the complete label on a button, CMud is replacing the last syllable with ellipses, even though it still has room to display the rest of the text. I've tried making the length of the button longer, but still nothing. Here's a screenshot:

Note especially the "Pri..." button at right. Clearly, it is supposed to say "Priest". I know that it has enough room to display the full text, because there is a button labeled "Runewarden" that is fully labeled below it.

Any thoughts on what the problem is, and how to fix it? Thanks in advance.

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:28 am

Some of your buttons may have the image on left option checked which takes up space on the button be assuming a button is there. They could also have the image margin value set which affects the display of text relative to the button image.

Beginner Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

Checked, and the image on left was enabled. I disabled it, but it didn't fix the problem. Image margin was set to 0, already. So, the problem is still there.

Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 7:14 pm

Yeah, I've actually seen this too. It has something to do with the changes with the CMUD theme/skin system that I haven't been able to track down. I've noticed that other elements, such as tabs, also have this problem sometimes. It's almost like one of the Windows Theme routines that returns the size of text (which is then used to see if the caption will fit) isn't returning the correct values, or is using the wrong font to determine the text size.

Anyway, this is on the bug list, but it's been a bit of a low priority for a while now.

Beginner Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Those buttons look like they are from Larkin's Acropolis setup. I have the same ones actually without the problems hmm.

I did a LOT of tweaking though when I converted them to Cmud though...

Could you give us a screen shot of the options tab for the priest button?

I have my buttons set at a width of 68 and a height of 23 image on left is checked but a margin of -1 Show on session, toolbar, and stacked are checked.

Beginner Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

Hrm. I thought that I had posted a reply, but I guess not. Then again, I did just do a silly double post, both entitled something like "CMUD Mapper: Blue Screen". Apparently the forums don't like me. Embarassed

Ok! I tried those suggestions, but they didn't do me any good, either. Here's a screenshot:

Wizard Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 1265 Location: USA

Alright, there is a bug in having buttons in different bars in different combinations. I know I have not reported it yet. I have been very busy and didn't want to have to nail it down.

Try putting the buttons that are messing up in a different bar. For instance if you have buttons in bars 2 and 4 some of the buttons will wildly change their horizontal positions for example.

So if you have buttons in bars 2 and 4 you will have trouble. But if you put all the buttons that are in bar 2 in bar 1, and disable the class the buttons are in and re-enable it again they work normally Sometimes...

I did more tweaking than that. But it is another thing to try.

Newbie Joined: 04 Jun 2007 Posts: 2

Hi there ..

I am also suffering from this button text problem. I have tried a simple set up that has only 1 toolbar with only 1 button and it still occurs.

Now the interesting thing is it seems to depend on exactly what the text is. If the button text is set to "Party Report - Off" then I only see part of the text with "..." on the end, but if I set the text to read "Party Report - On" I get the full text as expected. My button is large enough to display both sets of text properly (even set it to 300 for testing) .

I can sometimes even get my original text to display if i add extra words to the end of it (eg."Party Report - Off extra words" displays properly) but it seems to depend on the exact sequence of characters used. Of course this isnt a satisfactory workaround if you would like a small button that only contains a couple of characters (I have a button that I would like to display "2 r" which displays "2 ..." instead).

I have also found that this seems to be somewhat machine dependent. The problem occurs on my machine at home (my usual mudding machine) but with the exact same package set it does not occur on my machine in the office. Both machines are running Windows XP with up to date service packs and CMUD 1.33. Could the bug be graphics card related or some other system component ?

Thanks guys ...
B.S.E

Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:41 pm

Beginner Joined: 19 Jun 2007 Posts: 23

Hey Zugg,

Just downloaded the new version of 1.34 and, like you said, it seems to have fixed the problem. Thanks again for your help!

EDIT: Fixed spelling.