Hello,

In a Box using a Shape, how can I obtain the available text size (width).

This allows me to change the format and content of the text according to the available size and the measurestring function.

Thanks a lot

Thanks, but I don't understand very well your answer (I work with PowerBuilder but you can give me an answer for Visual Basic).

I will explain more clearly what I need.

If your choose the predefined shape Procedure, the text zone is not totally the box width.
The right and the left part of the shape is not writable.
The text area is smaller than the box width (70% : 15% on the left and 15% on the right are not parts of the text area).

My question is how can I know the text area width ?

Thanks a lot

PS : I understand that if I use the Star Shape, it will be more difficult (or impossible -> the text area is not a square)

Unfortunately, Powerbuilder is a language that does not communicate very well with C ++ applications.

For example, I am trying all the day to get the definition of an anchorpoint of an AnchorPattern of a box using GetAnchorPointF function and it does not function -> Powerbuilder abort. It seems to be a declaration of a datatype problem but what ?

I give you an example of this code to show you this fact.

[code]
oleobject ancpattern
real x1, y1
integer mark, ArrowStyle
integer segmentcount
unsignedlong color
boolean incoming, outgoing, changeArrowStyle
string pattern

ancpattern = create oleobject
ancpattern.connecttonewobject("Flowchart.AnchorPattern")
ancpattern = ao_dst.AnchorPattern()
segmentcount = ancpattern.AnchorPointCount()
pattern = ancpattern.PatternId()
ancpattern.GetAnchorPointF (anchor_org, REF x1, REF y1, REF incoming, REF outgoing, REF mark, REF color, REF changeArrowStyle, REF ArrowStyle, REF SegmentCount)
[/code]

If you find something tell me it.

For this topic, you can send me your C++ code to define all the shapes and I will try to translate it in a PowerBuilder script.

Thanks a lot