Are there new-line characters in the string? If there are some, there might not be enough space to fit the text in the fixed height and the method just returns false.

Stoyan

If you attach another box to the icon and use it as a label, you could call the label's FitSizeToText. That way the icon won't be resized, but just the label box below it. Or you might create a temporary box, get its size after calling FitToText, and apply that size to the ShapeTemplate' text area.

You could use the Box.ZIndex to identify a box. There aren't any two boxes with the same ZIndex, and the following dependence is always true: fc.Objects[aBox.ZIndex] == aBox. You might also assign some GUID to the Box.Tag and use fc.FindBox() to get the box that corresponds to a GUID.

I hope that helps,
Stoyan

Hi,

The attached box will follow the master box when the latter is moved or resized. This will create a composite shape that contains one box for the image and another for the text:

string imagePath = @"D:\Images\1.jpg";

Box icon = new Box(fc);
icon.Image = Image.FromFile(imagePath);
icon.FitSizeToImage();
icon.Transparent = true;
fc.Add(icon);

Box label = new Box(fc);
label.Text = "label text";
label.BoundingRect = new RectangleF(PointF.Empty,
	fc.MeasureString(label.Text, label.Font, int.MaxValue, label.TextFormat));
label.Transparent = true;
label.Locked = true;
fc.Add(label);

// attach the label to the icon
RectangleF rc1 = icon.BoundingRect;
RectangleF rc2 = label.BoundingRect;
label.BoundingRect = new RectangleF(
	rc1.Left + rc1.Width / 2 - rc2.Width / 2,
	rc1.Bottom + 1,
	rc2.Width, rc2.Height);
label.AttachTo(icon, AttachToNode.BottomCenter);
 

Stoyan

Hi,

After calling label.AttachTo(icon), set icon.SubordinateGroup.AutoDeleteItems = true.

You could use the same code as above to set the label.BoundingRect again. I.e. first call Box.FitSizeToText or Box.BoundingRect = fc.MeasureString(). That will set the correct size, but won't keep the label aligned to the horizontal center of the icon. To align the label to the icon, set the BoundingRect in the same way as before calling label.AttachTo. There is no need to call AttachTo again.

Stoyan