How to set the width of a text label?

Hi,

At the bottom of my application there is a status line like this:

<panel>
  <tableLayout>
    <row height="10"/>
    <row height="2">
      <cell columnSpan="2" hAlign="Full" vAlign="Full">
        <line color="#0099cc"/>
      </cell>
    </row>
    <row height="25">
      <cell width="80%" hAlign="Left" vAlign="Bottom">
        <textLabel name="STATUS_MESSAGE" />
      </cell>
      <cell width="20%" hAlign="Right" vAlign="Bottom">
        <textLabel name="OPERATOR_NAME"/>
      </cell>
    </row>
  </tableLayout>
</panel>

The status message is entered with the API: api_component.setlabel('operatorName.STATUS_MESSAGE',p_message);

It works perfectly. However, the textlabel scrolls after approx 20 characters. So long messages are split into multiple lines.

It appears that it is not possible to set a width for a textlabel. I have tried to solve the problem with the width of the cell, but even when i set it to 1000, the message is always broken up.

How can i solve this problem?

Kind regards, Jan Willem