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Asked: 2026-05-11T10:07:32+00:00

I’m concatenating a string that sometimes is long enough for it not to fit

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I’m concatenating a string that sometimes is long enough for it not to fit in a label control. How can i make it autoscroll to the rightside so i always see the end of the string?

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  1. While I’m sure there are ways of doing, I have to ask, why? I think it would look and/or work very badly and probably confuse the user.

    Why not have the text get trimmed with an ellipse (…) at the end and show a tooltip on the label?

    using System.Windows.Forms;  var label = new Label(); label.AutoSize = false; label.AutoEllipsis = true; label.Text = 'This text will be too long to display all together.';  var labelToolTip = new ToolTip(); labelToolTip.SetToolTip(label, label.Text);

    Now the tooltip will show the full text when the user hovers over it. Since the text in the label will be truncated and end in an ellipse, the user should know to hover over for more info (usually the standard way).

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