RhinoCommon Rhino.UI.Dialogs.ShowTextDialog limitation

Rhino Developer
1

Hi,

I’m trying to display a long string with Rhino.UI.Dialogs.ShowTextDialog
however beyond a certain size, the string is no longer displayed anymore.
Any thoughts on what might cause this?

import Rhino

rl = 'fill fill fill fill fill fill fill fill fill fill fill fill \n'
message = ''
for i in range(33):
    message +=  rl

#this text shows
Rhino.UI.Dialogs.ShowTextDialog(message,'report')

message += 'add this final line and see if it shows'
#adding an addition string and it does not show again
Rhino.UI.Dialogs.ShowTextDialog(message,'report')

Thanks
-Willem

2

ShowTextDialog does not perform any word wrapping. If you can’t see your text, you can always resize the dialog. Otherwise, you’ll have to add your one line feeds…

3

Hi Dale,

Thanks for the reply,
I believe the problem has nothing to do with wordwrapping.
With the above script I get this first dialog:

Pasted image509×836 5.64 KB

Adding just one extra line to the string gets me this:

Pasted image509×836 4.67 KB

-Willem

4

Rhino.UI.Dialogs.ShowTextDialog is a simple wrapper for a much more robust tool. In the current implementation, you’ll be limited to 2048 chars.

http://mcneel.myjetbrains.com/youtrack/issue/RH-32654

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