WoWInterface - Fontstring sizing or something else?

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Fontstring sizing or something else?

I am trying to create simple frame that displays text. I definitely made the containing frame wide enough to fit the string but it is still wrapping. The string is multiline (will have multiple \n).

Code:

raidLockoutFrame = CreateFrame("ScrollFrame", "NITRaidLockoutFrame", UIParent, "TooltipBorderedFrameTemplate");

raidLockoutFrame:SetPoint("Center", UIParent, "Center", 0, 0)

raidLockoutFrame:SetWidth(400);

raidLockoutFrame:SetHeight(400);

raidLockoutFrame:SetMovable(true);



local text = raidLockoutFrame:CreateFontString(nil, "OVERLAY", "GameFontNormal");

text:SetPoint("TOPLEFT");

text:SetJustifyH("LEFT");

--text:SetNonSpaceWrap(false);

--text:SetWordWrap(false);

raidLockoutFrame.text = text;



...



raidLockoutFrame.text:SetText(CreateLockoutText())

It ends up wordwrapping to this:

I've looked for solutions, tested word wrapping on the fontstring itself (does not work), and the GetWidth function returns 220 for the string (and I am setting the parent frame width to 400).

Any help out there?

Lua Code:

text:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", 5, -15)
text:SetSize(raidLockoutFrame:GetWidth() - 10, 12) -- fixed with/height

Adjust numbers to suit.

If the string itself has new line characters (\n) they will need to be stripped out:

Code:

raidLockoutFrame.text:SetText(gsub(CreateLockoutText(), "\n", " "))

I'm not sure where CreateLockoutText() comes from because it doesn't seem to be a Blizzard function so maybe that can be altered to return something useful?

Ahh - I missed SetSize (was looking for SetWidth/SetHeight).

Thanks!

You can use :SetWidth() and :SetHeight() instead of :SetSize(). But you didn't actually give your fontstring a width and height. Just your frame.