topic Get the world coordinate of a character in a text/element in Archicad C++ API https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/596541#M9273 <P>Hi</P> <P>Given the nth character in a text element, is it possible to easily get that characters position in world coordinates?</P> <P>It could probably be calculated from a combination of API_TextType, API_ParagraphType and maybe API_FontType but it would be tricky to cover every case. Is there an easy way to do it? I could not find anything readily available in the API documentation.&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/58007i8E53A545412E14D0/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" alt="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:11:46 GMT BenjiDev 2024-09-17T11:11:46Z Get the world coordinate of a character in a text/element https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/596541#M9273 <P>Hi</P> <P>Given the nth character in a text element, is it possible to easily get that characters position in world coordinates?</P> <P>It could probably be calculated from a combination of API_TextType, API_ParagraphType and maybe API_FontType but it would be tricky to cover every case. Is there an easy way to do it? I could not find anything readily available in the API documentation.&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" style="width: 400px;"><img src="https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/58007i8E53A545412E14D0/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" alt="BenjiDev_0-1711573074007.png" /></span></P> <P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:11:46 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/596541#M9273 BenjiDev 2024-09-17T11:11:46Z Re: Get the world coordinate of a character in a text/element https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/598521#M9289 <P>Hi Benji,</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>I don't know of any readily available function. I only found <A href="https://graphisoft.github.io/archicad-api-devkit/group___element.html#ga16c31e5654f9eaf2a2316ddd894de99e" target="_self">ACAPI_Element_GetTextLineLength</A>. With that it might be worth a try to get the line length of the substring ending just before the character you are interested in. That could at least simplify that part.</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P>Hope that helps,<BR />Bernd</P> Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:58:13 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/598521#M9289 BerndSchwarzenbacher 2024-04-10T05:58:13Z Re: Get the world coordinate of a character in a text/element https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/598999#M9296 <P>Ah, surely will be useful for what I'm trying to do, thanks Bern!</P> Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:26:53 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Archicad-C-API/Get-the-world-coordinate-of-a-character-in-a-text-element/m-p/598999#M9296 BenjiDev 2024-04-12T11:26:53Z