[GEM-dev] TextBase class

[B. Bogart]

Hey Georg,

I've thought this would be handy for sure. A "textbox" where you just
specify the x,y of the upper left and lower right that contains the
words would be great. The ability to justify each line independantly
would be really nice...

I think it is worth it for certain, being one of those people who works
with a lot of text.

b.

Georg Holzmann wrote:
> Hallo gem-devs!
>
> I currently need to display formated text in GEM: I use text2d and need
> to display a longer text over more lines - so I have to check where I
> have to make a newline ...
>
> I know I can implement that with the pd message system, but it's a
> little bit hacky and not so dynamic.
>
> So I thought about implementing it directly in the TextBase class:
>
> e.g.:
>   //////////
>   // The string to display
>   char    **m_theString;
>   //////////
>   // max. characters pro lines
>   // (if 0 then there will be only 1 line
>   // with as much characters as needed!)
>   int     m_maxchar;
>   //////////
>   // lines of the string
>   int     m_lines;
>
> with changing m_theString to a double pointer and m_maxchar is the
> maximum of characters in one line - so I can automatically calculate the
> nr of lines (m_lines) and display the text dynamically in more lines -
> and of course if a word doesn't fit into the line anymore it will be put
> in the next line...
>
> So my question, would that be usefull ? (because it's a little bit of
> work - I would have to modify all the different text objects ...)
> If not I will simply use a hack, which also would do the job, but maybe
> this solution could be usefull ... let me know what you think ...
>
> Thanks,
> LG
> Georg
>
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