Gui Add Text control not responding to height setting

[elmo]

Greetings all,

I was hoping to reduce the height of a gui text control; however, it seems not to go below some pre-determined default value.

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Gui , 1:Add , Text , xm ym h2 Border , Height Test
Gui , 1:Show

As shown in the example below, the "h2" (height=2 pixels) parameter is completely ignored.

x-height-test.PNG (1.63 KiB) Viewed 354 times

Is it possible to override the enforced default height ?

Thanks.

[BoBo]

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Gui, Font, s4
Gui , 1:Add , Text , xm ym w160 h8 Border , Height Test
Gui , 1:Show,,% chr(32)
Return

How to shrink a box if its content isn't shrunk as well?

[elmo]

Yes, precisely that, to shrink the box independently of the contents. Thank you for clarifying.

Or perhaps, is it possible to reduce the padding above and below; especially the white space above the text ?

The objective is to maximize the amount of information on a particular screen so the 'tighter' the box to the text, the better.

[boiler]

If your goal is to just pack in lines of text tightly, then don't worry about the virtual box around it (and don't use a border) and position the text as tightly as you'd like:

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Gui, Add, Text, BackgroundTrans, First line
Gui, Add, Text, xp yp+9 BackgroundTrans, Second line
Gui, Show

[elmo]

@boiler.

This is a most excellent suggestion and I would use it excepting that the border is mandatory to guide selection of the text by mouse.

Hmmm. The real challenge is to minimize the top white margin within the box; ideally to a single pixel.

I am familiar with 0x200 to set text to the middle vertically; is there a similar code to go to the top ?

In the end it simply may not possible and I greatly appreciate the ideas.