text wrapping

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    demers
    Oct 24 2010 | 5:38 pm
    Dear all,
    Is there an efficient way to enable text wrapping in either jit.lcd or jit.gl.text2d? At the moment, any text entered remains on a single line. The jit.gl.text2d example patch shows a jit.noise object generating random values within defined dimensions, but I'm not sure how to carry that over into a straight text situation.
    Also, for 'write [text]' and 'text [text]' messages, are there any symbols for paragraph marks, etc.?
    Thanks for reading,

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      efe
      Oct 24 2010 | 7:30 pm
      I am having the issue of lacking multiple lines with text2d, any idea what can be a solution?
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      demers
      Nov 28 2010 | 3:08 am
      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.
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      Samuel Freeman
      Nov 28 2010 | 10:59 pm
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      In Max, select New From Clipboard.
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      some moves towards a possible solution:
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      semiaddict
      Feb 01 2012 | 9:43 pm
      Hi,
      I know this is an old post, but I'm wondering if anyone has gone further on this issue.
      Thank you.
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      Wetterberg
      Feb 02 2012 | 8:02 am
      I hope this'll help - look at nov. 30th:
      https://cycling74.com/tutorials/november-patch-a-day/3/
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      semiaddict
      Feb 02 2012 | 3:22 pm
      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 ?
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      Christopher Dobrian
      Feb 03 2012 | 9:47 pm
      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.
      3304.scriptthattext.maxpat
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      11OLSEN
      Feb 03 2012 | 10:30 pm
      maybe this is also interesting for you https://cycling74.com/forums/textarea-object there's some text wrapping and even rewrapping going on..
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      semiaddict
      Feb 04 2012 | 9:43 am
      Thank you @Dobrian & @11olsen. I'll look into those solutions and see what fits.
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      Rodrigo
      Jan 29 2018 | 9:25 pm
      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?
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      11OLSEN
      Jan 29 2018 | 10:19 pm
      @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)
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      Rodrigo
      Jan 29 2018 | 11:10 pm
      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.
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      11OLSEN
      Jan 29 2018 | 11:40 pm
      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
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      Rodrigo
      Jan 30 2018 | 12:01 am
      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
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      11OLSEN
      Jan 30 2018 | 1:01 am
      The line_length attribute of jit.gl.text2d does the wrapping at whitespaces.
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      Rodrigo
      Jan 30 2018 | 9:21 am
      Hah, well that makes my life much easier!
      Thanks!!