Glue a text to a face in ruby

[nicoiweins]

Hi,

I would like to reproduce the text tool with the Ruby API

I am able to select a face, to get its center, to generate a text with an arrow pointing this center point but when I move the text the point moves too. I would like the point to stay connected to the center of my face (like using the native sketchup text tool)
I do not want to group the text and the face, I would like the same behaviour than the original tool

Any idea?

model=Sketchup.active_model
ents=model.active_entities
sel=model.selection
vec=[10,10,10]
sel.each{|el|    
  if el.is_a? Sketchup;;Face
    bbox = el.bounds
    point = bbox.center
    tt = "Her I am"
    txt=ents.add_text(tt,point,vec)    
	end
}

[TIG]

You cannot 'associate' text with geometry at its insertion point, through the API.
It has long been asked for...

There are a couple of workarounds...

Make it as 'flat' 3d-text [or normal Text] - make it inside a component definition, which has is2d gluing behavior, add_instance of it at the face.bounds.center point, then use instance.glued_to=face so it moves with the face...