UILabel's ShrinkContent: any way to match scales between multiple UILabels?

[jchowdown]

Hi NGUI Hive Mind,

Let' say I have two rectangular text blocks that are left- and upper justified. They're the same height and they sit next to each other on the left and right of my screen. These text boxes can hold differing amounts of text and it's very likely that one or both will have hold so much that I'll need to set the overflow to ShrinkContent.

Now, regardless of the outcome of the ShrinkContent operation on one/both of the boxes, I would like the printed text to be the same size. So basically I need both UILabels to take on the smaller scaled font size between the two instances. Is there an easy way to do that? Right now there's a private 'mScale' member.  I can hack up UILabel myself but there' gotta be a way right?

(I'm on 3.5.4 but I didn't see anything in the patch notes in later versions to indicate new functionality that might help)

Thanks in advance,
Jeff

[chrisfirefox]

I'd suggest you have a look at ProcessText in UILabel.cs. This is where the "magic" of shrinkwrapping the text happens. Basically you could do the same for both of your texts in your own code, finding out which of the two requires the lower "mPrintedSize" (equals Fontsize) to be completely displayed. Then you can set the font size on both (or any number of) your UILabels manually and leave the UILabel components at ClampContent, meaning the labels won't be resized at all. Provided of course that you have access to NGUI source.