Story Marker, maximum text width

[Anonymous]

Hi,
Hope I can explain this one. I might be dreaming a bit.
I want to create a story marker, that collects the story name (easy enough).
But what I'm hoping, is there a way I can use the STW command to determine the length of the longest story name.
For example if I have a section with storys

Level Ground
Level 1
Level 2

Level Ground is obviously the longest name, so I want to only know the width of this name.
This is so I can anchor my story settings correctly.

Maybe the MAX command?

[David Maudlin]

Tom wrote:
Maybe the MAX command?

That is where I would start, create an argument for each story using the STW command and plug them in. Define the text style before using the STW command for accuracy of the text length.

David

[Anonymous]

Hello Tom,

You might try something like;

define style "textstyle" "Arial", 2, 1, 0
style "textstyle"

storyName= ""
maxWidth= 0

dim t[]
n= request("STORY_INFO", "", nr, t)!--GDL Reference Guide 13 page 288
for i= 1 to nr
	storyName= t[4*(i-1)+2]
	storyWidth= STW(storyName)/1000*A_
	if storyWidth> maxWidth then
		maxWidth= storyWidth
	endif
next i

Hope it works...or helps, I can't test it at the moment.

Regards, Juha

[Anonymous]

Juha,
That is brilliant. Thank you very much.
I would upload the final object code on here, but it is an absolute mess as I have modified an existing one.
Works a treat though.

This will be useful for custom story markers with different scales.

Thanks Again
Tom

[Laszlo Nagy]

I see you are on AC16.
I that case you could also upload it to https://bimcomponents.com/.