Room Label - Can't get Paragraph/Textblock to work properly

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm at my wit's end. I feel like I've tried everything. Please Help!

What I'm trying to create is a room label based on one that I found here in the Depository, by James Murray (called Shape Tag JM9). I want a piece of Centered Text over an elliptical room tag (client demands ellipses), with the option to have a text size for the Room Name, and a different one for the room number.

It seems to me that the only way to get nicely centered/broken text is with a TEXTBLOCK (so that the user can define the width and get their own desired linebreak... I find \n too clumsy for my users who aren't familiar enough with the program), and the only way to use a TEXTBLOCK is with a PARAGRAPH command. This seems to, in effect, negate any style commands, and I cannot get set/define style{2} to work. They only work if I am using static text, not a variable. The text always seems to go to a system default font/size. Has anyone run into this before?

See the attached object to see what I'm describing. Any help at all would be FANTASTIC... I've lost too much time over this already Will I need to resort to \n for breaks and abandon the textblock altogether?

[Barry Kelly]

I had a quick play with it last night.
I couldn't disappear without having a better look.
Just adjusted the size of the text block x 10 and made the hotspots relate to the length (A parameter) so it is stretchy in plan.
I didn't use graphical hotsopts as there was no need.
Barry.
PS this was based on one of the ealier attatchments - RoomLable_again - as that is all I had - but I think they are very similar).