[0.16.30] Gui Label maximal_height clipping

[Oarc]

I'm not sure if this is a bug, but I couldn't find a note in the recent change logs that mention any changes like this.

I used to use maximal_height=10 to have multiple labels arranged vertically closer together.
The default spacing between labels is very large.

I tried playing with padding and setting heights but I can no longer get the desired spacing due to clipping.

I attached a picture of what it looks like since one of the recent patches. I think this change happened in .27 or maybe .28?

Thanks,
Oarc

[Rseding91]

Can you please post a sample mod that shows the issue?

Also, why not just set a single label to be multi-line and use that instead of multiple labels?

[Oarc]

How do I do a multi-line label?
I'm looking at this and can't figure it out: http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaGuiElement.html
I see multi-line for text-boxes but I'm not sure how to do that for a label.
(I got pointed to viewtopic.php?p=349133#p349133 which says to set single_line to false. http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... ingle_line. Thanks!)

Here's an example. I'm doing this in my scenario code, I don't know how to make a mod.

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_joined_game, function(event)

    local player = game.players[event.player_index]

    player.gui.center.add{name = "test_msg",
                            type = "frame",
                            direction = "vertical",
                            caption="test GUI height clipping issues"}
    local tGui = player.gui.center.test_msg

    tGui.style.maximal_width = 200
    tGui.style.maximal_height = 100



    tGui.add{name = "lable_1", type = "label",
                    caption="A test message blah blah blah blah blah message blah blah blah blah blah."}
    tGui.add{name = "lable_2", type = "label",
                    caption="A test message blah blah blah blah blah message blah blah blah blah blah."}
    tGui.add{name = "lable_3", type = "label",
                    caption="A test message blah blah blah blah blah message blah blah blah blah blah."}


    tGui.lable_1.style.maximal_height=10
    tGui.lable_2.style.maximal_height=10
    tGui.lable_3.style.maximal_height=10


end)

[ownlyme]

yeah i have the same issue.
it looks like the label leaves a ton of space on the top.
when i set mine to 6-8 px height i don't even see any text..

[Rseding91]

yeah i have the same issue.
it looks like the label leaves a ton of space on the top.
when i set mine to 6-8 px height i don't even see any text..

That's because the font defines the minimum height to render it and that's the height you see.

[ownlyme]

big part of the problem is that the font scales with window size, regardless of the "scaleable" property.

look at my graph. the spacers above the texts are 0 px height (triple checked!), yet there are huge gaps above them (texts have huge top-padding inside the label.)
i've tried everything but there is no way to fix it.

[ownlyme]

try this:

/c frame = game.players[1].gui.left.add{type = "frame", name = "frame", caption = "", direction = "vertical"}
tbl = frame.add{type = "table", column_count=1, name = "tbl", direction = "vertical"}
tbl.style.vertical_spacing=0
tbl.style.scaleable = false
above=tbl.add{type = "progressbar", name = "above", direction = "vertical"}
above.style.height = 1
above.value = 1
above.style.scaleable = false
textbox = tbl.add{type = "label", name = "textbox", direction = "vertical"}
textbox.style.height = 12
textbox.caption="12345%"
textbox.style.font = "default-small-bold"
textbox.style.scaleable = false

(paste the whole block into console^^)
i attached the result you should see.