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06-14-23, 01:05 AM   #1
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Text shortening - how to get around this?

Patch 10 introduced shortening of the displayed text as in the image below:



Subsequent display of the same window already shows the full text, without shortening:



How to make the text displayed in full form right away?

Lua Code:
  1. WOWTR_CheckButton11.Text:SetText("|cffffffffActivate quest translations|r");
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06-14-23, 09:14 AM   #2
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The shortening is a product of the FontString having a set size (width and height or SetPoint()s) that is shorter than the text being set and not tall enough to wrap.

If the fontstring is tall enough to take multiple lines of text but too short, the text will wrap until it runs out of space. If it's short and not tall enough, it will terminate in ...

Something is changing the FontString or parent frame size between the display of the two images.
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