topic Re: Text Frame in GDL in GDL

Text Frame in GDL

Anonymous — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 11:47:33 GMT

Is it possible to add text frame to your text within GDL scripting?

Re: Text Frame in GDL

Barry Kelly — Fri, 28 Oct 2016 02:15:21 GMT

Not as a simple option in the text.
But you can request the height of your text style …

REQUEST ("Height_of_style", name, height [, descent, leading])

… and then the width of the text string…

STW string_expression)/1000*GLOB_SCALE

… and then place a rectangle or fill that is the correct size and location.

Or if you are using the textblock command you can request the size of the textblock …

rrr = REQUEST ("TEXTBLOCK_INFO",textblock_name, width, height)

Re: Text Frame in GDL

Jim Allen — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:00:02 GMT

How do I use this?

REQUEST ("Height_of_style", name, height [, descent, leading])

It's taken from the GDL reference document, but it's not designed for novices like me.

I have this:

REQUEST ("Height_of_style", my_text_style_name, height [, descent, leading])

but I get this error:

Missing comma in parameter list

at mylinenumber in the 3D script of file myfilename.

I don't understand the braces or how you can have a comma after a brace. If I take the section between braces out, I get this error:

Missing comma in parameter list

at mylinenumber in the 3D script of file myfilename.

The guidance could be a lot clearer...

Re: Text Frame in GDL

DGSketcher — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 17:49:29 GMT

In the GDL manual the presence of the brackets are to highlight options [, Optional Values ] that may be omitted from the code line. Either omit everything including the [ ] or just omit the [ ] to set the extra values.

Re: Text Frame in GDL

Jim Allen — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:04:45 GMT

Thanks! Makes perfect sense now you have explained it. Getting started with GDL is a bit daunting, but making progress.

Re: Text Frame in GDL

Jim Allen — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:43:14 GMT

Thanks a lot - fixed it!

Sometimes it's useful to have guidance, even if it's a bit of a stupid question 😀