text box control points
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Jose Vieira
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text box control points
Text box are not resizing by grabbing and moving control points in QCad 3.32.2 on Ubuntu Mate. Actually I only can move the left control point in order to move the text, but can't resize text box.
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CVH
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Re: text box control points
Text entities normally have a single insertion position, see the 'Text Position' properties in XY.
When a text is selected you can move whole the text around with dragging that point its marker.
How the text is aligned in relation to its insertion point is set by the 'Alignment' modes.
3 in horizontal direction and 4 vertically or 12 options in total.
The displayed text height is set by the 'Text Height' property.
How long your text is depends on the text string itself, the font, the size, the 'X Scale' property and on Bold and/or Italic.
The actual length may vary and is fairly unpredictable.
Text entities are not formatted, scaled or resized by a so called text box with markers on opposite corners.
That would be fairly inaccurate for the text height and there is no control over the text length.
A secondary marker may be displayed when a column width is defined other than zero.
QCAD will then wrap the text in a fixed size column.
Note that QCAD will not break up words.
This marker is the left one of two when the text is aligned to the right, otherwise it is the right one.
Dragging this marker adapts the 'Text Width' property and thus the column width.
Regards,
CVH
When a text is selected you can move whole the text around with dragging that point its marker.
How the text is aligned in relation to its insertion point is set by the 'Alignment' modes.
3 in horizontal direction and 4 vertically or 12 options in total.
The displayed text height is set by the 'Text Height' property.
How long your text is depends on the text string itself, the font, the size, the 'X Scale' property and on Bold and/or Italic.
The actual length may vary and is fairly unpredictable.
Text entities are not formatted, scaled or resized by a so called text box with markers on opposite corners.
That would be fairly inaccurate for the text height and there is no control over the text length.
A secondary marker may be displayed when a column width is defined other than zero.
QCAD will then wrap the text in a fixed size column.
Note that QCAD will not break up words.
This marker is the left one of two when the text is aligned to the right, otherwise it is the right one.
Dragging this marker adapts the 'Text Width' property and thus the column width.
Regards,
CVH
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Jose Vieira
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Re: text box control points
Thanks CVH! Changing value at field "column width" solves the problem.
But this - "This marker is the left one of two when the text is aligned to the right, otherwise it is the right one" - is not working.
It's a bug.
Vieira
But this - "This marker is the left one of two when the text is aligned to the right, otherwise it is the right one" - is not working.
It's a bug.
Vieira
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CVH
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Re: text box control points
Simple text is all on one line.Jose Vieira wrote: ↑Sun May 04, 2025 10:33 pmBut this - "This marker is the left one of two when the text is aligned to the right, otherwise it is the right one" - is not working.
For text in Columns it must be set to not simple text.
Encircled are the text width markers opposite of the normal insertion markers.
150 to right, 150 to the left or 75 to the right of the standard text marker.
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Regards,
CVH