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Caption Box - Text Wrap Possible?

djhanson — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 22:02:19 GMT

Is there any way to control (expand) the Caption() box text wrap?

I'm guessing not from the Scripting Guide. It would be a nice feature if ever possible. It's kind of annoying to have a line wrap where you don't want it to wrap, and if set wrap() could ever be employed, then one could choose the line break where they wanted using a normal line break escape.

thanks, DJ

Re: Caption Box - Text Wrap Possible?

txnelson — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:12:31 GMT

You can use the Carriage Return Line Feed escape sequence to wrap to the next line

Names Default To Here( 1 );
Caption(
	{100, 200},
	"explan\!nation",
	Font( "Arial Black" ),
	Font Size( 16 ),
	Text Color( "blue" ),
	Back Color( "yellow" ),
	Spoken( 1 )
);

Re: Caption Box - Text Wrap Possible?

marie_gaudard — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:20:17 GMT

Hi DJ! I'm not sure, but is this what you are looking for? It uses one of the escape sequences for quoted strings. (See the section JSL Building Blocks > JSL Syntax Rules in the Scripting Guide.) --Marie

Names Default To Here( 1 );
Caption(
	{100, 200},
	"This is a \!Nvery \!Nvery \!Nlong sentence.",
	Font( "Arial Black" ),
	Font Size( 16 ),
	Spoken(0)
);

Re: Caption Box - Text Wrap Possible?

pmroz — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 14:14:39 GMT

I don't think that's what @djhanson is looking for. They want to control where the wrap occurs, rather than force the wrap with embedded CR/LFs.

For example:

caption("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.  Hello world hello world");

produces this:

You could use a text box to control the wrap. Not quite the same as caption() though.

nw = new window("Caption",
	tb = textbox("The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.  Hello world hello world")
);
tb << set wrap(500);
wait(4);
nw << close window();