Line break in iFix Text object

Is there some special character that can be inserted into a text object caption to force a line break. The old standby "alt-010" and/or "alt-013" do not seem to work. There must be some character, as we have several text objects that break, however I cannot isolate any specific hidden character, although moving the cursor with the arrow key seems to prove that some character is there.

Any help would be appreciated.

  • I believe there is a object property which governs the number of lines in a text object. If that is not greater than 1 your carriage return/line feed characters will probably be ignored. I think it is maxlines, but browse the property dialog and i think you'll find it.
  • In reply to Youssef.El-Bahtimy:

    How would you add a line break for animated text? Suppose that you have an animation using a table where there are multi-line strings, and you don't want the the line break in the middle of a word.

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  • In reply to tzephon:

    it was supposed to be \r\n but it doesn't appear to work.
  • The line break character is ASCII 13. However I don't know of a way to enter it manually into the Caption property. You can enter it by including in a string that is then written to the Caption property using VBA.
    The MaxLines property of the text object must be set so there is sufficient lines to display a multiline caption. If MaxLines is not large enough the caption is still updated correctly but the extra lines are not visible.
  • Use Alt+Enter. But it only works when creating the text for the first time