Crop text to fit size of button

[_ticlock_]

Hi All,

What options can be used to crop text to fit the size of the textbutton (or label)?

[Per K Grok]

Hi All,

What options can be used to crop text to fit the size of the textbutton (or label)?

The idea that jumps to my mind is to make the text into an image and crop that, and use the cropped image in the screen.
Technically you would not have a label or a textbutton, but you would have the visual effect.

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image croptext = Text("{color=#f00}TEXT TO CROP{/color}", size=35)
image croppedtext = Crop((0, 15, 220, 15), "croptext")

screen croptextshower():
    add "croppedtext"

[gas]

The core for textbutton is just a default button, then a text child on top of it. The text layer don't have any binded parameter on size.
All style parameters are in fact sent to the button-father, and you have to specifically use a text_ parameter to intervene to the child. And such damned child don't have text_cropping = 0.5, for example.
So, in a word, not only there's not an option, but there can't be ever one.

As a fun fact, the button does instead take the text one as default size, if no style intervene.
What a strange world.

[_ticlock_]

Thank you. I thought I missed something obvious. I used something similar to what Per K Grok suggested but using add Text(..) inside a button with ATL. Everything looks neat, however, I don't like that it is a bit "bulky" for a single button, when you add styles, change font color on hover, etc. There are a couple of things I want to try and I will post the code later.