Wish: Tags to handle multiple lines of textpanels

Hi David and Scott,

My wish is that tags can handle multiple lines of panels. A tag in Rhino now show the data on the same line. I bit difficult to read. :)
Cheers Bas

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on November 15, 2009 at 8:49am

Hoi Bas,

The screen-aligned text drawing does not support multiline data at all, but when you merge your multiple lines into a single String*, you can display them as a single object using the 3D tag:

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David Rutten
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Poprad, Slovakia

*I used a VB component for this. One line of code:
A = String.Join(Environment.NewLine, T.ToArray())

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 15, 2009 at 9:15am

mmm, what am I doing wrong?

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on November 15, 2009 at 11:07am

You have to right click on the 'T' input, enable "List" and set the type hint as "String".

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 15, 2009 at 12:12pm

Thanks Vicente, it works in the official Beta and version 0.50099.
Hi David, It does not work in the version you provided me. :) It can wait.

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 15, 2009 at 12:16pm

With picture to prove

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Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 15, 2009 at 12:19pm

It works, I still had the VB editor open

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 16, 2009 at 2:32pm

Dear David,

Strange, this function moves (sometimes) extra lines on top of the first line. See attached picture in two steps.

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Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 16, 2009 at 2:32pm

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on November 16, 2009 at 2:39pm

You've got separate paths going into the vb.net component. It will output one string per path. You have to flatten the data. Right click on the 'T' input and select 'flatten'.

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 16, 2009 at 2:51pm

Hi Vicente, I tried, but it still does strange. Now it jumps to the last line, even when I add extra lines. funny.........

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on November 16, 2009 at 2:58pm

That makes sense. You'll have to flatten it earlier. Place a flatten component in between the A output and the text note.

Permalink Reply by Bas Goris on November 16, 2009 at 3:11pm

Yes, that does the job. Thanks a lot!