Reposition-able text

[Patrick May]

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.

[Barry Kelly]

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.

Versions 6.5 to 22
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Dell Precision M6800 - i7 4700MQ @ 2.40GHz, 16GB RAM, AMD FirePro M6100 (2GB), Windows 7 64bit

[Patrick May]

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…

[Dominika Bobály]

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

Dominika Bobály
Product Manager
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Barry Kelly]

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.

Versions 6.5 to 22
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Dell Precision M6800 - i7 4700MQ @ 2.40GHz, 16GB RAM, AMD FirePro M6100 (2GB), Windows 7 64bit

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