topic Re: Adding a new line in AutoCAD Forum

Adding a new line

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:20:57 GMT

Hi guys i'm currently working on a plugin and I need some advice, one of the features on the plugin is to add text the size of a unit. however if the unit is smaller than the text used the words go on to a different line, but they split in the middle of words for an example please see the photo. What i'm trying to do is when the word would go onto the new line, instead of just part of the word going onto it, making the whole word go onto it.

Any advise would be appriciated.

Many Thanks

Rob Parsons

Re: Adding a new line

tramber — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:37:15 GMT

So you are not talking about TEXT but about MTEXT ?

But with Text command, there is a justification that should help you.

TEXT
J (Justify)
F (Fixed) or A (Aligned) should satisfy you.

Re: Adding a new line

tramber — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:39:30 GMT

Oops. Fixed justification is also available in Mtext. So what is your need, indeed ?

Re: Adding a new line

Anonymous — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:57:01 GMT

Thanks for the advice, but it won't really help, as I need to be able to use a Dimstyle option as my plugin is being written in C#.

Thanks for the help though

Re: Adding a new line

Kent1Cooper — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 17:03:32 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

.... my plugin is being written in C#. ....

I don't know anything about C#, but it does look like something coming from the plug-in, rather than from AutoCAD, which I don't believe will split a word like that.

And what if an entire word is wider than that available space, as it appears the second word in your image may well be?

Re: Adding a new line

tramber — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 18:09:30 GMT

Now, you are talking about DIM. Mtext is maybe an obligation.

But as I know, all of that must be quite easy with vlisp or autolisp so why don't you find the properties I'm talking about in your coding language ?

I showed you what exists in the "core" of the software. Didn't you know about it ?

Re: Adding a new line

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 08:47:03 GMT

I didn't know about theses, sorry i'm very new to AutoCAD and C# to be fair. As i'm currently an Apprentice