multiline button labels

Ray Bennett rjb at escapesports.com
Tue Jan 7 05:12:22 EST 2003


This line produces a multiline button label in Rev 1.1.1

set the label of button "testprint" to "Test" & return & "Button"


On Friday, Jan 3, 2003, at 08:28 America/New_York, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi Kevin or someone at RR,
>
>>>> Labels of buttons CAN have multi-line names !
>>>> You can force a new line in the label (and ONLY there) by adding
>>>> \n, where a linebreak should appear.
>>>> This is the\nlabel of me
>>>> Results in:
>>>> This is the
>>>> label of me
>>>>
>>>> Very cool feature :-)
>>>
>>> Klaus,
>>>
>>> Are you sure about this?
>>> When I set the label of a button in Rev to "the\nlabel" it appears 
>>> in the
>>> button as "the\nlabel". The "n" isn't escaped by the \ and everything
>>> remains on one line.
>>
>> Oooops, you are right...
>>
>> I works in MetaCard, RR uses the same engine so i will have to
>> pass the question over to scotland...
>>
>> Why does that not work in RR (1.1.1 and 2.0xx) ???
>> Please make it work there, too...
>
> can you please give a tiny comment on this inconvenience ?
>
>
> Thanks a lot from germany
>
>
> Klaus Major
> k_major at os.surf2000.de
>
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