confusion about TextEntity

Since Giulio Piacentinos 'textlines' component is deprecated. I wondered how to bake text at all.

I tried

     TextEntity text = new TextEntity();

      text.Plane = pl;
      text.TextHeight = size;
      text.FontIndex = doc.Fonts.FindOrCreate(face, bold, italics);
      text.Text = mystring;

      Curve[] crvs = text.Explode();

      for(int i = 0;i < crvs.Length;i++) Print(crvs[i].GetLength() + "");

Guess what? It always prints '0' length, though the number of curves correspond to the amount of letters set by 'mystring'. Is there a way to get that working? Anyways, I don't get, why there is an object available in Rhino.Geometry namespace but cannot be used within GH.

Any hints appreciated.

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on August 25, 2013 at 6:34pm

Your code is fine. When I copy-paste it into a c# component and write the line "A = crvs" at the end, the curves representing the exploded text come out.

Permalink Reply by Thomas Müller-Valentin on August 26, 2013 at 1:33am

Could you share your ghx? In my case the curves also came out but didn't show up because of their invalid geometry ie a curve with zero length doesn't exist. Do you see the letters? And..what GH version did you try?

thx

Thomas

Permalink Reply by Thomas Müller-Valentin on August 26, 2013 at 1:47am

Ok..im finally puzzled right now. You're right, it works. What the...mh..anyway. Thx :D