Newline character in caption of button

Question

I am building an application in which I want to display a button on a form. I want to display the Caption of the button on two lines. I have tried using the following code in the form's OnCreate event but it is not showing the new line.

Button.Caption := 'Hello' + #13#10 + 'world';

Any other method to add a new line?

Answer 1

Others have told you what you can do in code: set Wordwrap and use SLineBreak.

But I guess you'd like to edit the multiple lines in the designer. This is not possible in the plain IDE. There are a few 3rd party tools which allow it, but you can also simply use a '|' to separate the lines, and then, in code use something like

Button1.Caption := 
  StringReplace(Button1.Caption, '|', SLineBreak, [rfReplaceAll]);

(This is from memory, as I have no Delphi here, so please use the proper syntax).

Answer 2

In case you want to see to see the change in IDE, at design time, you can do the following:

1. Right click in the control and select "View as Text".
2. Locate the control and at the spot you want the line break, add to the value of Caption, the characters '#13#10' (CRLF).
3. Right click and select "View as Form".
4. Check the property WordWrap of the button control.

Answer 3

Set WordWrap to True. That's all.