topic Re: Text Wrap in TextBlock in ArcGIS API for Silverlight Questions

Text Wrap in TextBlock

JayKappy — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:00:47 GMT

I have a map tip set up on a Feature Layer.
One of the fields is too long...what I am trying to do is wrap the text...and failing...

I first figured it would expand the MapTip dialog box but then nothing was wrapping...so I set the width adn height and still no wrapping...

Thoughts?

I tried this

        <esri:FeatureLayer.MapTip >
                                    <Border esri:GraphicsLayer.MapTipHideDelay="00:00:01.5" CornerRadius="10" 
                                         BorderBrush="#FF222957" BorderThickness="3" Margin="0,0,15,15">
                                        <Border.Background>
                                            <LinearGradientBrush EndPoint="1.038,1.136" StartPoint="0.015,0.188">
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FFD1DFF2"/>
                                                <GradientStop Color="#FF092959" Offset="0.946"/>
                                            </LinearGradientBrush>
                                        </Border.Background>
                                        <Border.Effect>
                                            <DropShadowEffect ShadowDepth="10" BlurRadius="14" Direction="300" />
                                        </Border.Effect>
                                        <Grid>
                                            <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5" Height="150" Width="250" VerticalAlignment="Center">
                                                 <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                                                    <TextBlock Text="Location:      " FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
                                                    <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                                                ConverterParameter=Location, Mode=OneWay}" />
                                                </StackPanel>
                                            </StackPanel>
                                            <Border BorderBrush="Black" BorderThickness="1" />
                                        </Grid>
                                        </Border>
                                </esri:FeatureLayer.MapTip>

Re: Text Wrap in TextBlock

JayKappy — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:01:19 GMT

Got it...just set a width adn it brought it back in and did the wrap

<TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Width="150" Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter}, ConverterParameter=Location, Mode=OneWay}" />

Re: Text Wrap in TextBlock

ChristopherHill — Fri, 10 Dec 2021 23:36:00 GMT

The problem you are seeing is a common when working with StackPanel.

Orientation="Horizontal"
any items that do not fit horizontal(width) will overflow through the side of the stack panel.

Orientation="Vertical"
any items that do not fit vertically(height) will overflow through the bottom of the stack panel.

So as soon as your items reach the fixed width they will just clip under the side of the stack panel.

<StackPanel Orientation="Vertical" Margin="5" Height="150" Width="250" VerticalAlignment="Center">
                                                 <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal">
                                                    <TextBlock Text="Location:      " FontWeight="Bold" HorizontalAlignment="Left" VerticalAlignment="Center" />
                                                    <TextBlock TextWrapping="Wrap" Text="{Binding Converter={StaticResource MyDictionaryConverter},
                                                                ConverterParameter=Location, Mode=OneWay}" />
                                                </StackPanel>
                                            </StackPanel>

If the combine width of your two textblock exceeds 250 then you will see text cliping.