Hello there,

I'm noticing text within tables tends to get misaligned when styled text is enabled.

You can reproduce this behavior in the FlowChart.NET Demo application.

Go to "Table-related diagrams", "ERM diagram", select an Entity and set "EnableStyledText" to true to any of the boxes. Toggle to see the difference in text alignment.

It gets especially noticeable when text is aligned with the table edges, where it simply falls out of the object.

Is this a bug?

Thanks!
JGG

Thanks for your quick answer.

Is this going to be fixed in a future version, or is there any other workaround than creating "phantom" columns to keep the text within the table?

JGG

I think I should have been more precise on what I meant by "falling off" the table.

I have a table with two columns, one with left alignment and the other with right alignment.

To describe what happens more accurately, the text on the right column is offset a bit on the right and gets clipped on the window edge, usually clipping a whole character or more.

Too bad I can't upload a picture, here's some simplified code of what I'm using to generate a table.

Table table = chart.CreateTable(x, y, 30, 30);
table.CellFrameStyle = CellFrameStyle.None;

table.ColumnCount = 2;
table.RowCount = 3;

table.Columns[0].Width = table.BoundingRect.Width / 2;
table.Columns[1].Width = table.BoundingRect.Width / 2;

table[0,0].Text = "xxxxx";
table[0,1].Text = "yyyyy";
table[0,2].Text = "zzzzz";

table[1,0].Text = "xxxxxxx";
table[1,0].TextFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;
table[1,1].Text = "yyyyyyy";
table[1,1].TextFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;
table[1,2].Text = "zzzzzzz";
table[1,2].TextFormat.Alignment = StringAlignment.Far;

table.EnableStyledText = true;
 

See the clipping on the right edge. If you comment the EnableStyledText line, it's set correctly.

One thing I would suspect is the width I'm using on columns to get a 50/50 separation, but even subtracting 1.5 or 2.0 from the right column still clips some of the text.

Hope this helps!
JGG

That's fixed now. If you wish to try out the updated version, I can send you our daily build of the dll - just let me know which .NET version do you use.

Stoyan

Hi,

Here is the today's build of the dll:

https://mindfusion.org/_temp/FlowChart.NET.zip

Just overwrite the dlls in the flowchart.net installation folder.

Stoyan