Show all text in a title of a form

Question

My text title may be of different length, and I want that text fully fit within the entire title bar of a form. So I need to change width of a form. But how to know a width of a text in a title, when in different systems font and size of title text can be very different? Thanks in advance!

See [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18089280/adapt-the-size-of-a-form-to-its-title-text-in-c-sharp). — Andrei V, Nov 11 '13 at 11:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 11 '13 at 14:11

May be this could help,

    private void YourFormName_SizeChanged(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        this.Width = 300; // the default or initial width
    }

    private void textBox1_KeyUp(object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.KeyCode == Keys.Enter)
        {
            e.Handled = true;

           if (textBox1.Text.Length == 0)
            {
                this.Width = 300;
                goto END;
            }
            if (textBox1.Text.Length < this.Width)
                this.Width = textBox1.Text.Length;
            else
                this.Width = this.Width + textBox1.Text.Length;
        END:this.Text = textBox1.Text;
        }
    }

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 11:16

In WPF that is resolved easy, but as for Windows Forms, I think you may inherit from standard Window control and in the initialization code assign header title width (it must be simple to calculate, as Andrei V mentioned in comments) to a form.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 11 '13 at 11:23

In the form, Put the following code in the constructor:

this.Width = this.Width + this.Text.Length;

this.text returns the text of the title. this.width returns the width of the form. Just adjust the width according to the length of the text in the title.

Show all text in a title of a form

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