Hi Rich,
A few comments below that might help you understand it a little more:
On 29/05/2015 14:51, Rich Bobo wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone else find the new Text node to be completely unintuitive?
Up is down, left is right, pixel box and layout sizes are backwards. I
can’t seem to get anything to work the way I think it should! If I
want to justify left, it goes to the right. WTF?!?
There are two ways you can use the text node - you can create your own
bbox and limit the text area to this (as with the old text node), or you
can free type - where the bounding box automatically resizes to the text
you are typing. The justify controls have different behaviour depending
on the context. I suspect this is what's causing you confusion.
When you've defined your own bbox, justify will (as you would expect)
justify the text within that box. My guess is that you're in free type
mode. In this case, you are justifying the text relative to the position
where you placed your first character.
So imaging you set justify to right before you started typing, then
click in the viewer somewhere and begin typing. Each new character will
cause the characters to the left of it to be moved to the left. If,
after typing several characters, you click left justify, all the text
will move to the right so that the left-most character is at the first
position. Essentially you are justifying the text bbox in this mode.
Does that make sense?
Note that you can switch from freetype mode to bbox mode either by
initially dragging out a box at the start, or by resizing your text box
at any time.
And, the fact that it remains active any time it’s open — so you
inadvertently type characters when using hotkeys drives me bonkers!
Yes, there is a long standing feature request raised for this. One idea,
for example, is that we use a hotkey (e.g. esc) to toggle between text
entry and non text entry mode. Would you find something like this less
frustrating?
Hope that helps.
Peter.
Guess I’ll have to RTFM to figure out how it works… Does anyone think
this is an improvement? Am I the only one having trouble figuring it
out? ~(8^P
Rich
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