Question

I’ve been trying and trying to get the standard C# toolstrip control to format button text as multiline, and so far I’ve had to admit defeat.

What I’m trying to achieve is text under the picture, and the text wrapping a fixed icon size, rather than extending the icon size to accommodate the text, I’m not sure if I can explain it any easier – at the minute, the program looks like the following:

Icon Image  
Icon Text - extending icon

whereas I actually want it to display as such:

Icon Image

Icon Text  
Wrapped  
Under Icon

I’m a bit stuck as to explain it any better than that, there’s no multiline property on icons, and they don’t accept the standard \n escape to force a newline.

I’ve got a horrid thought that I’m going to need to create a custom toolstripbutton class in order to do this, but I’m at a complete loss as to where to begin with that, so any help is graciously appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any assistance 🙂

Answer 1

You can programmatically set the Text property of the ToolStripButton like this:

toolStripButton1.Text = "Hello\nWorld!";

Run this in your form’s constructor.

Of course you’d also set your ToolStripButton’s ImageTextRelation property to ImageAboveText and its DisplayStyle to ImageAndText.