too long string to show in one line ?

[Nubeat7]

hallo, iwant to do a label, for the presetmanager, which dont write 2 lines when the string is too long, i would prefer that it shortens the string and keep it in one line i.e.

"dark arp syn..."
and not
"dark arp
synthecizer"

is there a way to do this?
and a maximum lenght of the string would be fancy too...

Thanks

[trogluddite]

Yes, both the Ruby and primitive texts let you do this; you need to turn off word wrapping.

For priimitives, you use the format option "nowrap". For example, on the Text primitive, connect a string to the 'SF' input, and write "nowrap, left, centre" for one line text, left aligned, in the middle of the height.

For Ruby - you need to use the setFlags method for the formatString object - there's a list of the codes in the user guide (4096 is the right one for "nowrap" IIRC), e.g.

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@my_format = formatString.new
@my_format = setAlighment("left")
@my_format = setLineAlignment("top")
@my_format = setFlags(4096)

In Ruby there's load of extra flags that the Text prim' doesn't have - don't quite understand them all yet, but a quick experiment setting the number from an input value should soon find the most useful ones. Then you just add together the numbers of the ones you want to use.

[Nubeat7]

thanks trog, great it stays in one line now with the flag (4096) also when the label is higher... to shorten the string with "..." for the last characters i used this lines inside the code:

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s = @label[0...90]
   l = @length   
   if l <= 3 then l = 3 end
   if s.length >= l then s = @label[0,l-3] + "..." end

it shortens the link now like this when its longer the 14 character

"dark arp syn..."

i also found out that the max length for preset names are limited to 24 characters by the presetmanager anyway..

get this little gimmick for toolbox here: viewtopic.php?f=3&t=953

[RJHollins]

Thanks NuBeat !

Very handy. Thanks Guys for a bit of the RUBY lesson