text wrapping

I am having the issue of lacking multiple lines with text2d, any idea what can be a solution?

Hello all,

No answer has been given on this. Is it a tough one to solve, or is the answer too obvious? Either way, if anyone has thoughts, I'm all ears - and still looking for a solution.

some moves towards a possible solution:

Hi,

I know this is an old post, but I'm wondering if anyone has gone further on this issue.

Thank you.

I hope this'll help - look at nov. 30th:

https://cycling74.com/tutorials/november-patch-a-day/3/

Thank you @Wetterberg.

I'm using Max/MSP 5.1.9, and getting the following error: "js: VerySpecialMessage.js: Javascript ReferenceError: select_font_face is not defined, line 86"

Do I need to install a library, or does this only work with Max/MSP 6 ?

If you want to wrap text to keep lines at or under a certain number of characters, and you want to be sure to break the line at a white space, here's a pretty simple algorithm. As you type (or as you scan through some text you want to display), keep track of the index of the most recent white space character (we'll call that index "lastspace"). When you get to the last character of the line, if the current character is a white space you can simply break there, but if the current character is not a white space then write only characters 0 through lastspace, go to a new line, and start the new line with characters lastspace+1 onward.

I'm attaching a JavaScript object I wrote a while back, and an example patch. It's a little different from just wrapping and displaying text. It simulates typing. I hope it proves to be of some use to you.

maybe this is also interesting for you https://cycling74.com/forums/textarea-object there's some text wrapping and even rewrapping going on..

Thank you @Dobrian & @11olsen. I'll look into those solutions and see what fits.

Don't know if it's the newer forum software, but I can't see the .js file in @Christopher's post. Can anyone re-upload it?

@RODRIGO

https://cycling74-web-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/bb-attachments/3303.LineBreakerCD.js

But I think the "counting chars" method is only useful with a monospace font. Other fonts have varying sizes of characters. (e.g. .......... __________ 10 dots are shorter than 10 underscores)

Thanks @Olsen!

I'll have a poke at it. I plan on using Helvetica, which isn't monospace, but doesn't vary too wildly.

I'll mainly try to get rid of the 30ms delay between each character though, as I primarily want to use this as a text wrapper that segments in whitespace only.

When I had to wrap text, i always used a jsui. You don't need to display the text with it. You can print the wrapped lines to an outlet if you want. [my textarea link from above], https://cycling74.com/forums/jsui-mgraphics-patch-a-day

I saw that while searching the forum and will have another look.

My specific use case will be projecting the text, so primarily using jit.gl.text2d

The line_length attribute of jit.gl.text2d does the wrapping at whitespaces.

Hah, well that makes my life much easier!

Thanks!!