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peliosis

08-24-2007, 08:11 PM

Hi, I found this strange thing...I can't find a way to create a multiline text shape.
even when:

shape1.text = sourceText --get a MULTILINE text from existing shape
shape2.text = sourceText --apply it to a brand new text shape flattens it

I tried "blahblah\n blah\n blahblahblah\n" but this tricky lil thingy just keeps on flattening and puts strange vertical bars in the text window of the shape.

Please help, my fileNamesWithTheirPathsOrNetworkPaths are quite long:D

pt

ofer_z

08-24-2007, 08:58 PM

Hi,

For some strage reason, the text object seems to use "\r" for line break.
try:
text text:"line1\rline2"

hOpe this helps,
o

peliosis

08-25-2007, 03:57 PM

Thanks!

That works but it produced some problems.
After myText.text = "blah\rblah\blah", the text in text field appears divided by strange vertical bars, not in lines, so when I try to get it out, there are strange invisible character in myBroghtBackText = myText.text.

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