NiftyGUI: Problem with label control

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Dear JGO,
I’m currently writing a game with Slick2D and NiftyGUI (v. 1.3.2). As always I’ve created a simple XML file with a center aligned panel. The panel contains two labels (horizontal oriented):

?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<nifty xmlns="http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty-1.3.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://
www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://nifty-
gui.sourceforge.net/nifty-1.3.xsd http://nifty-gui.sourceforge.net/nifty-1.3.xsd">
<useStyles filename="nifty-default-styles.xml" />
<useControls filename="nifty-default-controls.xml" />
<screen id="start">
	<layer>
			<!-- Caption -->
			<panel childLayout="horizontal" align="center">
				<control
					id="lblCaption"
					name="label"
					color="#bccf39"
					text="caption"
				/>
				<control
					id="lblVersion"
					name="label"
					text="version"
					marginLeft="10px"
					color="#ff6000"
				/>
		</panel>
    </label>
</screen>

I can change the text content of those controls in Java:


// Inside a screen controller...
Label lblVersion = screen.findNiftyControl("lblVersion", Label.class);
Label lblCaption = screen.findNiftyControl("lblCaption", Label.class);
lblCaption.setText("A very long long long long long text!");

The text will be changed - but not the width of the label! The result: the text is cropped. That’s very annoying. I’ve tried the following solution to solve the problem:


TextRenderer renderer = lblCaption.getElement().getRenderer(TextRenderer.class);
lblCaption.setWidth(new SizeValue(renderer.getTextWidth() + "px"));
// Update the panel and all children
lblCaption.getElement().getParent().getParent().layoutElements();

This works for me but it’s not a very elegant way. Has anyone experience with this problem? ???