[VB] How to make a text box bubble?

[AshMan]

Please take a look at the attached mock-up pic. It shows a speech bubble that is automatically being wrapped around a text Label. Does anyone know how I can do this?

The bubble is obviously being composed from nine smaller pieces. I could simply use a solid graphic for the bubble but since the Label text will be populated AND positioned randomly at runtime, I don?t know how big it will be, so the bubble will need to be some kind of wrapper.

I'm using VB 6.

Thanks

Ash

[steelhand]

You'll have to use the shape control to build the bubbles, obviously. Setting the size at run time would be simple enough and then use another shape control to build the point for the bubble

[AshMan]

Please can you tell me how that would be achieved? I don't think you can create such a point using the shape control. Also, is there an example code for this?

Thanks

[AshMan]

OK, this is what I've done so far using a simple transparent GIF for the point and a Shape Control for the bubble. However, this is something I wanted to avoid as the "Rounded Shape Control?s corners can vary in size and I wanted the point to remain at a certain level but when the bubble is too big, it looks like the second example in my screenshot.

[steelhand]

Yeah there is no way around the corners. and positioning the point would have to be variable. Your only other others would be using a custom control, Me.pSet (Not advised), or something like this (http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Programming_Languages/Visual_Basic/Q_20799428.html) which might be a bit involved

[AshMan]

Thank steelhand, I think that is a bit too advanced for me. Are there any other solutions at all?

If this were HTML, I'd simply use a 3x3 celled table and place the text Label in the center cell.

[AshMan]

Any other suggestons?

[AshMan]

Bump!