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Just curious, shouldn`t you better remove the bugs instead adding them?

you could just make the redrawing automatic eh?

Thanks for the update, this fixes all of my problems for now.

I'll keep using it and see if anything more bad things happen.

I`m a bit confused about the text alignment feature. With horizontal text align 0 my text gets created at the given values.

With horizontal text align 1 the text gets slightly offset to the left. But i cannot figure out the amount. And to me it looks odd. It is nowhere aligned, it places somewhere in the space.

And with horizontal text align 2 my text simply doesn`t appear at the surface.

See attached file. Spacebar, 1 and 2 are the keys in use ...

Ah, one more thing, i find it very uncomfortable to click through 5 or 6 dialogues. Couldn`t you just use a single expression instead a dialogue for every single value you want to ask? In the text case something like: ( >X1<,>Y1<,>X2<,>Y2<, "text")? Or does this make too much trouble?

Yes I agree with Tiles on that.

Those expressions can get frustrating.

The "apply matrix" bit is even worse.

(XXX,XXX,XXX) Something like that, but a dialogue for every X.

Ah, that`s how it is meant. Thanks

It doesn't bother me THAT much anyway.

Thanks Looki

Hmm, result still looks a bit odd to me. I am not sure which X value is the width of the text rectangle, and which X value is the position of the rectangle.

And it`s a pain to change the values because of those lots of dialogues

Thanks Looki, just wanted to be sure. Then i finally call it a bug, hehe

First two values defines the XY of the rectangle, second two values defines the size of the rectangle. So in all alignment cases the text should start or end in the rectangle, right?

As you can see in the attached screenshot, this just happens with case one

Mh, one more thought, for the second coords set you get a message called "Leave zero if no clipping is checked". This was a bit confusing to me. I first searched for a setting called no clipping. But it`s an action. Wouldn`t fit "Leave zero if no clipping action is defined" better? But my english is not the best. Maybe somebody comes up with something better

Ah, thanks Looki, so there is indeed a clipping setting. And it is even activated by default. Haven`t thought to search in the text settings.

Hmm, when i turn off No text clipping in the settings as shown in the second picture the text completely vanishes. And activating no text clipping by the action as shown in your first picture does the same: no text arrives in my rectangle.

The only way to display my text at the surface at all seems to be to keep the No Text Clipping activated in the settings, PLUS define a rectangle in the draw text event. With the described odd results

Besides that, just curious, why three times the same settings? Wouldn`t be one enough?

At the latest now i scratch my head. I have the strange feeling that we talk about different things here. Sorry when i seem to be stupid at the moment. I am

When the second set defines the SIZE of the rectangle, why has it to be bigger than the POSITION? Or do i mix things completely now?

I am lost how the whole text stuff is meant to work. Best would be a working example. May i ask for one? Does your time allow to create one? You would need it for your docs anyways

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Three times the same setting? Not sure what you mean.

Ah, my mistake. Two times i meant. The set clipping. It is one time in the settings, and one time as an action. I mixed it with the draw text action. But that is not case three, but the case where i need the clipping to be on or off

Oh, wait, i think i get my mistake. X2 and Y2 is not the widht and the height of the rectangle, but the second coordinate to finish a rectangle shape, right? Phew, that was what was irritating me

Hmm, i have the feeling that the rectangle size, means define width and height, approach would be the more comfortable one compared to the coordinate approach. But that`s your decision. And i guess it would make more work, right?

So sorry for the confusion. And thanks for your patience