Hi ,
I am trying to print a text with gltext but I am unable to specify the \n command for putting text to multi line .
for example :
string comment = "testingtesting \n testing testing \n testing testing";
so its just putting a space instead of new line . any clue how we can get the new line stuff works ?
Thanks
Use gltext.writeNL instead of gltext.write
-Jim
Thank you Jim writeAtNL done that for me :)
Thanks Again
Hi,
I am also trying to get this multiline to work. I am looking to setup a slate similar to your simple slate to show the following :
SHOW :
SHOT :
FRAME RANGE :
DATE :
FILENAME :
ARTIST :
OUTPUT :
COMMENT :
The movie output path and comments can be too long for one line, I would like it to write to a new line when it gets too long.
Can you give an example how to get gltext.writeAtNL to work.
Thanks
let textCnt = textprs.size()*20;
let getFps = fps();
let hourCode = 00;
let mintCode = int(frame) / int(fps()) / 60 ;
let secCode = frame % 60;
let milSecCode = int (frame % fps);
let getTimeCode = ("TCR : %02d:%02d:%02d:%02d \nThis is a test time code"%(hourCode,mintCode,secCode,milSecCode));
let text = getTimeCode,
b = gltext.boundsNL(float(56)),
sh = b[1] + b[3],
sw = b[0] + b[2],
margin = 6,
x = tw -textCnt - 45,
y = 50,
g = float(grey),
c = Color(0, 1, 0, float(op));
glColor(c);
gltext.color(c);
gltext.writeAtNL(x, y, text);
hope it will help you
Hi ,
Thanks I got your code to print on newlines using the /n in strings method.
What does the gltext.boundsNL() do?
What im really trying to do as an example is get a multiline or a wraparound to work :
rvio foo.#.exr -overlay watermark " THIS IS A LONG TEXT STRING THAT I WANT TO AUTOMATICALLY SPLIT AND PLACE ON THE NEXT LINE WHEN IT GETS TOO LONG FOR THE SCREEN" 0.8 -o watermark_newlinetest.mov
The Output I'm hoping will generate and output :
THIS IS A LONG TEXT STRING THAT I WANT TO
AUTOMATICALLY SPLIT AND PLACE ON THE NEXT LINE
So with this working I could potentially call in
rvio foo.#.exr -overlay watermark \"%(moviePath)s\" 0.8 -o watermark_newlinetest.mov
Hi Peter, boundsNL returns a four vector with the bounds of the text. So in Achayan's example he's using that to calculate the width (sh) and height (sw) of the box of text that will be rendered.
Are you trying to do this as an overlay or a slate? Can you describe what you want the output to look like?
-Jim
Here's some code that will wrap long text by inserting newlines. A maximum width in pixels is used to determine when to wrap. There's also some bits and pieces to deal with alignment and some left/righ/center justification. Hope this helps. It doesn't use gltext.writeNL as that outputed the lines in the opposite order (or I had a bug in my code that reversed the lne order :)
union: VAlign { Top | Bottom | Middle };
union: HAlign { Left | Right | Center };
union: Justification { Left | Right | Center };
\: textHeight( float; )
{
return gltext.ascenderHeight() - gltext.descenderDepth();
}
\: textDepth( float; )
{
return gltext.descenderDepth();
}
\: textSize( (float,float); string text )
{
string[] lines = string.split( text, "\n" );
float w = 0.0;
float h = 0.0;
float yinc = textHeight();
for_each( line; lines )
{
float[4] b = gltext.bounds( line );
w = math.max( w, b[2] - b[0] );
h += yinc;
}
return ( w, h );
}
\: _wrapText( string; string text, int maxWidth )
{
let (w,h) = textSize(text);
let (sw,sh) = textSize( " " );
int remaining = maxWidth;
// use this list as a stack, push/popping each line
string[] results;
// split on whitespace...
for_each ( word; string.split( text, " " ) )
{
let ( ww, wh ) = textSize(word);
if ( ( ww + sw ) > remaining )
{
results.push_back(word);
remaining = maxWidth - ww;
}
else
{
if ( results.size() == 0 )
results.push_back(word);
else
results.back() += " %s" % word;
remaining -= ( ww + sw );
}
}
return string.join( results, "\n" );
}
\: wrapText( string; string text, int maxWidth )
{
if ( text eq nil || text == "" )
return "";
string[] results;
// split on newlines...
for_each ( line; string.split( text, "\n" ) )
{
results.push_back( _wrapText( line, maxWidth ) );
}
return string.join( results, "\n" );
}
\: _drawText( void; float x, float y, Justification justify, string text )
{
string[] lines = string.split( text, "\n" );
float[] widths;
float maxW = 0.0;
float yinc = textHeight();
for_each( line; lines )
{
let ( w, _ ) = textSize( line );
widths.push_back( w );
maxW = math.max( w, maxW );
}
while ( lines.size() > 0 )
{
string line = lines.pop_back();
float w = widths.pop_back();
case ( justify )
{
Justification.Left -> { gltext.writeAt( x, y, line ); }
Justification.Right -> { gltext.writeAt( x + maxW - w, y, line ); }
Justification.Center -> { gltext.writeAt( x + ( maxW - w ) / 2.0, y, line ); }
}
y += yinc;
}
}
\: drawText( void; Color color, float x, float y, HAlign halign, VAlign valign, int wrapAtWidth, string text )
{
if ( text eq nil || text == "" )
return ;
gltext.color(color);
if ( wrapAtWidth > 0 )
text = wrapText( text, wrapAtWidth );
let (w,h) = textSize(text);
case ( halign )
{
HAlign.Right -> { x -= w; }
HAlign.Center -> { x -= ( w / 2.0 ); }
}
case ( valign )
{
VAlign.Top -> { y -= h; }
VAlign.Middle -> { y -= ( h / 2.0 ); }
VAlign.Bottom -> { y -= gltext.descenderDepth(); }
}
_drawText( x, y, Justification.Left, text );
}
Thanks for sharing this one Tony. I'll give it a try.