Button "Clip Text" - doesn't work / does nothing

[shatteredCD]

Godot Version

v4.3.stable.official [77dcf97d8]

Question

Button / Text Behaviour / Clip Text

"Property: clip_text
When this property is enabled, text that is too large to fit the button is clipped , when disabled the Button will always be wide enough to hold the text."

Looks like Clip Text does nothing. When changing font size , the button fits the size of the font, but I need the button to stay specific size.

How to keep a button size independent of it’s content?

[superplaystudios]

Clip_text clips text only horizontally, which won’t add new line, but not vertical(text height).
Clip_content clips children(you can try to clip_content on parent node).

[dragonforge-dev]

Use a RichTextLabel as a button. They will not resize for your text and will cut it off like you seem to want. Then link the meta_clicked signal to make it work like a button.

[shatteredCD]

indeed it works, but only horizontally

[shatteredCD]

Yes, this approach works. However the text in rich label doesn’t center vertically and don’t store hover theme, so I made my custom Button with a Label inside.

@tool
class_name ButtonPlus extends Button

@export_category("Content")
@export var label_text: String = "" :
	set(value):
		if label_text != value:
			label_text = value
			if label:
				_refresh_label()

@export_range(0.1, 1) var text_scale: float = 0.565 : # Button pixel height vs Text pixel size
	set(value):
		if text_scale != value:
			text_scale = value
			_update_label_size()

@export_category("Debug")
@export var refresh: bool:
	set(value):
		_refresh_label()

@onready var label: Label = $Label

func _ready() -> void:
	_refresh_label()

# Label
func _update_label_text() -> void:
	if label:
		label.text = label_text

func _update_label_size() -> void:
	if label:
		var button_height: int = roundi(size.y)
		label.add_theme_font_size_override("font_size", roundi(button_height * text_scale))

func _refresh_label() -> void:
	if label:
		_update_label_text()
		_update_label_size()

func _on_resized() -> void:
	_update_label_size()

This also makes buttons to display text of the same size at different resolutions.