Text Frame in GDL

[Anonymous]

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

[Barry Kelly]

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)

[Jim Allen]

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...

[DGSketcher]

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.

[Jim Allen]

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

[Jim Allen]

Thanks a lot - fixed it!

 

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