delphi - Can I make a TMemo size itself to the text it contains?

Question

When you edit a TLabel's caption in the form designer, it resizes the TLabel for you. Is there any way I can get a TMemo to do that, at runtime?

I'd like to be able to take a TMemo, assign something to its .lines.text property, and then tell it to resize itself and not exceed a certain width, though it can get as tall as it wants to. Anyone know how to do that?

Answer 1

This works just fine for me. The constant added (8) might vary on whether you are using a border and/or bevel, experiment with it.

procedure TForm1.Memo1Change(Sender: TObject);
var
  LineHeight: Integer;
  DC: HDC;
  SaveFont : HFont;
  Metrics : TTextMetric;
  Increase: Integer;
  LC: Integer;
begin
  DC := GetDC(Memo1.Handle);
  SaveFont := SelectObject(DC, Memo1.Font.Handle);
  GetTextMetrics(DC, Metrics);
  SelectObject(DC, SaveFont);
  ReleaseDC(Memo1.Handle, DC);
  LineHeight := Metrics.tmHeight;
  Increase := Memo1.Height;
  LC := Memo1.Lines.Count;
  if LC < 1 then
    LC := 1;
  Memo1.Height := LC * LineHeight + 8;
  Increase := Memo1.Height - Increase;
  Memo1.Parent.Height := Memo1.Parent.Height + Increase;
end;