Text

Synopsis

This design allows the creation of a single line of text. Text is like a Rectangle whose size is a function of the text itself.

Mixins

RectangleMixin

InkTextMixin

Canonicals

Name	Type	Description
text	string	The characters to be shown.

Rules

Name	Type	Description
width	number	The total width of the characters. This overrides the width parameter of Rectangle.
height	number	The total height of the characters. This overrides the height parameter of Rectangle.

Example 1

Name:	text_Ex01
Design:	acDrawingDocument

Child Name:	myText
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
Text	string	"Lorem"

Example 2

Name:	text_Ex02
Design:	acDrawingDocument

Child Name:	myRectangle
Child Design:	:Rectangle
Name	Type	Supplied
height	number	1
width	number	3
color	string	"blue"
linePattern	string	"Dotted"

Child Name:	txtLabel
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
Text	string	makeString(myRectangle.DesignName)
charHeight	number	0.25

Example 3

Name:	text_Ex03
Design:	acDrawingDocument

Child Name:	myRectangle
Child Design:	:Rectangle
Name	Type	Supplied
height	number	5
width	number	3
color	string	"jungle green"
linePattern	string	"Dotted"

Child Name:	txtWidth
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
Text	string	format("width %d", myRectangle.width)
eBottom	point	myRectangle.eTop + Me.unitY * 0.3
charHeight	number	0.5

Child Name:	txtHeight
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
Text	string	format("width %d", myRectangle.height)
eBottom	point	myRectangle.eLeft + unitX * 0.3
charHeight	number	0.5
xDirection	vector	Me.unitY
yDirection	vector	-Me.unitX

Example 4

Does this work in AutoCAD?

Name:	text_Ex04
Design:	acDrawingDocument

Child Name:	myText
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
text	string	"Lorem"
textFont	string	"ariali.ttf"

Example 5

Name:	text_Ex05
Design:	acDrawingDocument

Child Name:	myText
Child Design:	:Text
Name	Type	Supplied
text	string	"~u21222"
textFont	string	"ariali.ttf"