Creating multi-line Mtext

[Anonymous]

I'm having trouble getting an mtext entity with multiple lines of text. I've tried adding vbCrLf, vbLf, vbCr, \P, \n to the Text property but the end result is always a single, wrapping line of text in the mtext entity.

Anyone have an idea what I'm missing?

Thanks in advance.

[Anonymous]

i use vbcrlf all the time with mText, and i haven't had any issues. perhaps you could provide the code in question.

[Anonymous]

I can't put all the code here due to privacy policies in my company but I have posted the mtext creation bit below...

...code above...
Dim PtA As Geometry.Point3d = oEd.GetPoint(vbCrLf & vbTab & "Select Note Insertion Point: ").Value

Dim strText As String = cboSeries.Text & vbCrLf & cboStyle.Text & vbCrLf & cboType.Text & vbCrLf & cboExtra.Text

Dim oMtext As New MText
With oMtext
.Width = 300.0
.TextHeight = 8.0
.Location = PtA
.Attachment = AttachmentPoint.MiddleCenter
.SetContentsRtf(strText)
End With

oBtr.AppendEntity(oMtext)
oTrans.AddNewlyCreatedDBObject(oMtext, True)
End If
...code below...

Hopefully it's something stupid I'm overlooking.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like a crappy company 🙂

set

.setContentsRtf(strText)

to

.Contents = strText

-Mark Pendergraft

[Anonymous]

>> .Width = 300.0

Change that number to an smaller value ie 4.0.... and see what happens.

[Anonymous]

Changing to .Contents = strText did the trick!

Thanks 🙂