Reposition-able text

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    • #2917
      Patrick May
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      This is a stupidly rudimentary problem, that I should be able to figure out, but am running into too many road blocks to decipher the GDL help center’s guides.
      How do I associate a text box with a hot spot, or other means of graphically repositioning the text?
      I want to be able to just click on the text’s mid-point and drag to position.

    • #2918
      Barry Kelly
      Participant

      Without actually writing the code all you need to do is create the script for the moveable (stretchy) hotspot – you can ad a rotating hotspot too if you want.
      Then use an ADD2 command (and ROT2 command if desired) using the hotspot parameters.
      Then TEXT2 0,0,”text” and the text will move with the hotspots.

      If you are not worried about moving the text differently for different scales and/or rotating then you can skip the ADD2 and ROT2 and use the hotspot parameters directly in the TEXT2 command.

      If you need an actual coded example let me know.

      Barry.

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    • #2920
      Patrick May
      Participant

      I have:

      unID = 001
      HOTSPOT2 textOffset_x,textOffset_y,001
      TEXT2 textOffset_x,textOffset_y,txtParam

      what am I missing? An example would be great…

      • #2927
        Dominika Bobály
        Keymaster

        Barry is right, you need the “editable” kind of hotspots for parametric positioning. See a tutorial here.

        Dominika Bobály
        Product Manager
        GRAPHISOFT SE

    • #2922
      Barry Kelly
      Participant

      You are using just a single hotspot.
      You need a moveable or stretchy hotspot.
      In fact you need 2 – one to move horizontally and the other vertically.

      Something like this…

      unID = 1000
      
      !!!!!!!!!!!! x-axis stretchable
      
      HOTSPOT2 0, textOffset_y, unID, textOffset_x, 1+256
      unID=unID+1
      HOTSPOT2 -0.001, textOffset_y, unID, textOffset_x, 3+128
      unID=unID+1
      HOTSPOT2 textOffset_x, textOffset_y, unID, textOffset_x, 2
      unID=unID+1
      
      !!!!!!!!!!!! y-axis stretchable
      
      HOTSPOT2 textOffset_x, 0, unID, textOffset_y, 1+256
      unID=unID+1
      HOTSPOT2 textOffset_x, -0.001, unID, textOffset_y, 3+128
      unID=unID+1
      HOTSPOT2 textOffset_x, textOffset_y, unID, textOffset_y, 2
      unID=unID+1
      
      !!!!!!!!!!the text
      
      TEXT2 textOffset_x,textOffset_y,txtParam

      The initial UNID can be set to whatever value you want.
      The trick is hotspots should always have different values so if you repeat the hotspots again reset with a new UNID

      Barry.

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