No tabs possible in text?

liquid98

Hi,

I have a string = "t\tt"
In console it prints:

t		t

But ents.add_text string, [0,0,0]
Gives 'tt'

why??
Is there a magic workaround whose existence I'm not aware ?

Thnx guys!!

Liquid

thomthom

hm.. I see the same thing. And I can't even add tabs to a Text entity using the native tool...

TIG

The 'newline' \n will work OK... BUT a \t doesn't.
So you can't 'align' Sketchup's 2d Text using tabs.
Tabs are rendered as 'empty characters'.
You can of course replace any 'tabs' in the string with some spaces before using it - e.g.
text.gsub!(/\t/,' ')
for three spaces...
Tab \t does work OK in the UI.messagebox methods.

fredo6

@tig said:

Tab \t does work OK in the UI.messagebox methods.

...but it does not work in contextual menu texts, to right-align the short text. I think it was broken in v8.

Fredo

Dan Rathbun

@unknownuser said:

...but it does not work in contextual menu texts, to right-align the short text. I think it was broken in v8.

By "short text" are you referring to accelerator keystrokes ??

They are not supposed to be specified in the menu item text. The OS adds them to the menu item, after an accelerator is assigned to the UI::Command object, that is in turn assigned to the menu item.

driven

finally, something that actually works on a mac, but not on a PC?

` > tab=("t\tt")
t t

coordinates = [0, 0, 0]
model = Sketchup.active_model
entities = model.entities
point = Geom::Point3d.new coordinates
text = entities.add_text tab, point
#Sketchup::Text:0x1c013cec`
the screen text has the tab...

john

liquid98

Thanks guys. It seems this is a PC only bug. So far no reason to buy a mac..