topic Re: Adding newline in property text values in Documentation

Adding newline in property text values

DGSketcher — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:46:53 GMT

Is there a way to embed a carriage return/new line character in property values?
It would help make my notes and labels a lot more readable without having to resort to creating multiple property values.

Re: Adding newline in property text values

Barry Kelly — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 00:51:52 GMT

\n works for general (text) properties and ID.

Barry.

Re: Adding newline in property text values

DGSketcher — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:40:39 GMT

Can you put that in context Barry?

If I enter a value directly/manually e.g. "My \n Newline" the displayed autotext result is literally the same.

If I do the same as a conditional value e.g. IFS (TEST, "My \n Newline", ...) the backslash is stripped from the text and "My n Newline" is displayed.

Re: Adding newline in property text values

Barry Kelly — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 11:45:29 GMT

I don’t have ArchiCAD with me at the moment so I can’t show an image.
I put \n in the ID and in a general property of a wall where I could type any text.
I then added a property label to the wall showing both of these properties and they both had new lines created.

Barry.

Re: Adding newline in property text values

DGSketcher — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:23:43 GMT

Thanks Barry. I can see what is going on. If you use the "Classification and Properties" label then as you say the use of \n is implemented, BUT if you create a label with autotext references to the same property values then the \n is displayed literally. And if \n is placed within an expression the \ is stripped.

Guess I will have to see if I can get the "C&P" label to do what I want. Unfortunately it doesn't allow text style changes to highlight or colour values unlike a simple autotext label.