Question

To make sure that the text in listbox items is not truncated I want to adjust its width to the width of the item with longest text.

Is there any way to get a ‘actual’ width of the listbox item the one which is based on the item’s text.

ListBox.GetItemRectangle does not seem to be returning this actual width.

thank you.

Answer 1

MeasureString method: (copy pasted from msdn)

Graphics g = control.CreateGraphics(); int width = (int)g.MeasureString(aString, control.Font).Width; g.dispose(); 

Add width of the textbox (left and right side) to the value