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fihcnc

Like the title says, how can i line-break a popup or input-prompt? For most languages I know, adding \n to the text would break the line.
Lets say i want to print the following:

This is an example
of what im trying to do
Neither of the following lines work
popup("This is an example \n of what im trying to do", "Title", False, False)
popup("This is an example" + \n + "of what im trying to do", "Title", False, False)
bcastets

I cannot find information in UR script manual about this.
As a work around you could add some spaces until you reach the maximum width of the window ?
It is a big heavy but it should works.
fihcnc

bcastets said:
I cannot find information in UR script manual about this.
As a work around you could add some spaces until you reach the maximum width of the window ?
It is a big heavy but it should works.
Multiple spaces in script command is ignored, even when within quotation-marks. So both:
popup("Test                 newline", "Title", False, False)
popup("Test " + " " + " " + " newline", "Title", False, False)
Outputs:
Test newline
(The  " " + " " + " " + " "... was in an attempt to force it to print multiple spaces

fihcnc

bcastets said:
I cannot find information in UR script manual about this.
As a work around you could add some spaces until you reach the maximum width of the window ?
It is a big heavy but it should works.
Doesn't work. Multiple spaces only gets printed as a single space.
Trying to force it by using "StringPart1 " + " " + " " + " " + " String part 2" doesn't work either

bcastets

I tried :
"line1"<br>"line2"
It works.
I looks like popup handle html code.
fihcnc

For future readers:
Apperantly displayed text in UR can be formatted using HTML in general.

<h1>Your headline here</h1> (Results in a headline)
<b>Your bold text here</b> (Bold text)
<p>Your paragraph here</p> (Using multiple paragraphs in succession negates the need for <br>)
Text can also be styled using style="color: [color]; padding-top: 30px;" and such
bcastets

Thank you for sharing this. We can now have popup with some style !
matthewd92

@fihcnc THANK YOU!!  That is awesome. I don’t know why I never thought of it knowing the GUI is modified html but it never even entered my mind.