[Laszlo-dev] <text> tags

[P T Withington]

Max (cc-ed) might be a better resource.  I'm not really up on text.

On 2008-02-20, at 11:42 EST, Lou Iorio wrote:

> Hi Tucker,
>
> In this JIRA, there are two problems:
>
> Example 21.12 is trying to show how you can use <text> with  
> multiline=false.

That seems backwards to me.  If you want multiple lines, I would think  
you would have to have multiline="true".

> The text states that you can use <br /> tags to force line breaks,  
> but this doesn't
> work. The reference says the same thing. This did not work in  
> version 3.4 either.
> In the example, the text doesn't break.
>
> canvas height="125">
>  <simplelayout spacing="5"/>
>  <text bgcolor="#ccccff" multiline="false" width="500" height="100">
>    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Cras<br/>
>    nibh. Quisque justo. Donec porta, wisi quis vehicula interdum,<br/>
>    augue dui pharetra lectus, non adipiscing purus nibh vitae purus.
>  </text>
> </canvas>
>
> Example 21.18 is trying to show that you can't have an image in text  
> if there is
> no text. This doesn't work: the image shows up either way. Here's  
> the example:
>
> <canvas height="100">
>  <text multiline="true" height="80">
>    Some text and
>    <img src="./images/horse-3.jpg" width="20" height="20"  
> align="left"/>
>    some more text
>  </text>
> </canvas>

No clue on this.  Sounds like it was documenting a bug that has gone  
away perhaps?