Chris Johnson

I'm trying to use a few textedit boxes as containers for text I'm pulling from .txt files. I've already got the text coming into the textedits but the font size is too small so I keep changing it in the inspector. For some reason, I keep having issues with them reverting to default settings. It's not even when I push text into them... just whenever I load the file, they have returned to default settings. What makes this even more frustrating is that every time I change the font size (whether in the inspector or via a fontsize message from a message box or attrui) the textedit fields change size somewhat arbitrarily. Since I'm using these as text fields for a UI in a M4L object this is INCREDIBLY annoying. The problem persists even when using the paint bucket/format tool to change parameters instead of the inspector.

Any solutions to this mess or do I just need to find something other than textedit to use for these things? (keep in mind that I'm working with song lyrics so I need to keep text formatting like line breaks and symbols so any solutions that toss that stuff won't fly)

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Running Windows 10 Creator's Update and using Max 8 in Live 10

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I'm trying to use a few textedit boxes as containers for text I'm pulling from .txt files. I've already got the text coming into the textedits but the font size is too small so I keep changing it in the inspector. For some reason, I keep having issues with them reverting to default settings. It's not even when I push text into them... just whenever I load the file, they have returned to default settings. What makes this even more frustrating is that every time I change the font size (whether in the inspector or via a fontsize message from a message box or attrui) the textedit fields change size somewhat arbitrarily. Since I'm using these as text fields for a UI in a M4L object this is INCREDIBLY annoying.  The problem persists even when using the paint bucket/format tool to change parameters instead of the inspector.


Running Windows 10 Creator's Update and using Max 8 in Live 10

I'm trying to use a few textedit boxes as containers for text I'm pulling from .txt files. I've already got the text coming into the textedi

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If you go into the inspector for the textedit, and scroll to the bottom click to enable parameter mode, save the type as blob and check initial enable.

It will remember if you changed the font to 72 upon exiting and reopening the patch!

If you go into the inspector for the textedit, and scroll to the bottom click to enable parameter mode, save the type as blob and check initial enable. 

textedit doesn't save attribute changes