topic Wrap text within an object in Libraries & objects

Wrap text within an object

JGoode — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 15:46:54 GMT

Is there a way to wrap text on a 2D object and then making the object expand based on the amount of text inside? How difficult would this be to do?

Re: Wrap text within an object

matjashka — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 18:43:48 GMT

If I understood your question correctly, the simple answer is yes.

You may have to define your text width first

actualWidth=(your_dimension)*1000

You first create a TEXTBLOCK which has width as one of parameters, and then use RICHTEXT2 do display its contents.

TEXTBLOCK block_name, actualWidth, anchor, angle, width factor, charspace factor, fixed height, "Hello!"
richtext2 0, 0, block_name

Then you use a REQUEST command to acquire the width and height of the above.

your_dimensions = REQUEST("TEXTBLOCK_INFO", block_name, width, height)

Re: Wrap text within an object

JGoode — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 12:39:42 GMT

matjashka wrote:
If I understood your question correctly, the simple answer is yes.

You may have to define your text width first
actualWidth=(your_dimension)*1000
You first create a TEXTBLOCK which has width as one of parameters, and then use RICHTEXT2 do display its contents.
TEXTBLOCK block_name, actualWidth, anchor, angle, width factor, charspace factor, fixed height, "Hello!"
richtext2 0, 0, block_name
Then you use a REQUEST command to acquire the width and height of the above.
your_dimensions = REQUEST("TEXTBLOCK_INFO", block_name, width, height)

Thanks for the reply! I got it working. Is there a way to set the minimum height?

Re: Wrap text within an object

matjashka — Fri, 23 Jun 2017 15:18:23 GMT

Hi and you're welcome.

If you want to limit values during user input, in the Parameter script you usually do

values "myParam" range[min,]

When dealing with variables you probably want to create some type of a condition like this

min=10
IF myValue<min THEN myValue = min

Of course you can hard code the min or make it a user-accessible parameter.