Hi Geoff,
I too agree that the TFont is probably overkill, and to be honest it
came down to laziness. It was the last thing I did in the mods and after
two days with this stuff I'd had enough :).

The "original" intention was to allow the developer to change the font
colour.

Perhaps 3 basic properties instead of a TFont would be sufficient:
FontColour
FontName
FontSize

and "maybe" style?

Any feedback is most welcome. Let me know how you go if you get around
to compiling it into an existing app.

thanks
Mark

Geoff Worboys wrote:

>Hi Mark,
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>>If you want more from the AutoLabel and/or more documentation
>>on the AutoLabel stuff, see my AutoLabel enhancement in the
>>files section of this yahoo group. The file is AutoLabelMods.zip
>>and inside the zip file the IBC_Label.pas file is the one that
>>contains the documentation for the auto-label.
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>>I'm hoping Jason at least extracts the comments for the
>>Autolabel stuff for the next release as the AutoLabel is a bit
>>perverse when you first look at it...but darn useful :)
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>I took a look at what you've done to AutoLabel - it looks
>like great job.
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>By the time Tobias and I had gotten the original parts working
>we were out of the patience required to polish it. It was very
>fiddly getting the timing exactly right for all the bits to
>update as needed.
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>I have not had a chance to compile your changes into my own
>apps to see how it goes, but from your demo images it looks
>like there is now a lot more to attract people to using it.
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>My main concern with your new code is the creation of a TFont
>instance with the AutoLabel object. Its probably not a big
>deal, but we tried to keep the overheads for AutoLabel down to
>a minimum so that, when no label is actually being managed, the
>only impact would be the autolabel properties themselves and
>not any other objects. (Otherwise we could have saved a lot of
>bother and just had the labels always created and only bothered
>to show/hide as needed.)
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>AFAIK the VCL makes TFont pretty efficient (shared resources
>etc behind the scenes), so it probably wont matter very much.
>But it is one of the reasons why a Font property never made it
>to the original AutoLabel version.
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