rs.ExplodeText appears broken on Mac

Grasshopper GH for Mac
1

Hey.
I have written a small python script for previewing text as curves in the rhino viewport, and then when toggled, bake the text as text objects so that they can be further edited in Rhino/Illustrator/etc. The script works fine on PC, but the preview is broken on Mac seemingly due to a broken rs.ExplodeText function? rs.AddText works although it doesn’t seem to automatically detect changes to the variables and re-compute and add the new text. When called from within an if statement it is however no problem. ie:

if BAKE == True:
    bakeText = rs.AddText(text, plane, height, font, font_style=0, justification=None)

Below here is the small script working on PC but not on Mac, and attached is an example file with the GHpython component:

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs
import scriptcontext as sc
import Rhino 

sc.doc = Rhino.RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc

crvsList = []

textCrvs = rs.ExplodeText(rs.AddText(text, plane, height, font, font_style=fontStyle, justification=None), True)

if textCrvs:
    for i in textCrvs:
        crvsList.append(rs.coercegeometry(i))
        rs.DeleteObject(i)
else:
    print "error creating textCrvs"

if BAKE == True:
    bakeText = rs.AddText(text, plane, height, font, font_style=0, justification=None)

BakeAsText2.gh (6.0 KB)

Is it me doing something wrong or is the rs.ExplodeText really broken for Mac? I really need some help with this, and I’d be super grateful for any pointers or comments on whats up with this!!

2

Unfortunately, it’s not just the script call to ExplodeText that is failing, but exploding text in general. We have this on our TODO list of bugs to fix (MR-2213), but have not managed to solve the problem yet.

3

Hey Dan,
Many thanks for your reply, that indeed answers all my questions regarding exploding text on Mac :wink: Looking forward to a solution to this issue!