Long Room Names using Space Tool

[TBrown]

I am using the "Space Tool" to label rooms within my floor plan, and am having a problem with some names that are too long. Is there a way to break the name into 2 lines of text. The dialogue has only a single row cell to enter the name. Anyone ever encounter this??? and if so any suggestions?

[eas]

The only work around I have found is to copy multi-line text into the room name box--I often have three lines of text in a room name. Once it is in there you can edit it or remove a line you just can't add one.

If you search the archives I think you will find that the desire for multi-line text is an ongoing one from VW users.

Hope this helps.

[TBrown]

Can you tell me how do that? ie. "copy multi-line text into the room name box".

Thanks.

[Travis]

TBrown, highlight and copy a carraige return. You can the paste the CR into any box in VW. . .VW recognizes a CR as Enter when you press the key.

Good luck,

[eas]

What Travis said.

In more detail, make a regular text box and type three words with a return in-between each:

long

room

name

Then highlight the whole thing with the text tool, ctrl C and ctrl V in the Obj. Info box under Room Name.

Should work.

[TBrown]

Thanks to both of you. I appreciate the help. It worked perfectly.

[SteveK]

I've been looking for this a long time. Unfortunately this appears to only work on a Mac. I get it to work on a G5, but not on an XP computer. Are any of you using a PC?

[Petri]

Could this be related to the good old CR vs CR/LF problem? Macintosh assumes that if you want a carriage return, you also want a new line whereas DOS (or whatever they call it nowadays) assumes that, unless told otherwise, you want to type again and again on the same line.

But never mind: UNIX assumes that you only want a new line. Returning the carriage is a separate thing altogether.