TextAd example

TextAd example
 1# This example gets a text style sheet from the active drawing
 2# and creates a text entity at position 0,0 using the text style
 3# of the text style sheet. The horizontal and vertical positions
 4# of the text entity are then modified so that the centre point of
 5# the text entity lies at position 0,0. The text style of the text
 6# entity will be linked to that of the specified text style sheet.
 7
 8# create a local variable for the active block
 9ab = impact.active_drawing.active_layer.active_block
10
11# create a local variable for the text style sheet to use
12text_style_sheet_name = "Palette Default"
13
14# attempt to get the specified text style sheet from the active drawing
15text_style_sheet = impact.active_drawing.text_style_sheets.item(text_style_sheet_name)
16
17# check that a text style sheet was found
18if not text_style_sheet.isNone():
19
20    # create local variables for the anchor and caption
21    anchor_x = 0
22    anchor_y = 0
23    caption = "Arden Software"
24
25    # create a text entity
26    text_entity = ab.text_ad2(anchor_x, anchor_y, caption, text_style_sheet)
27
28    # check the text entity was created
29    if text_entity is not None:
30
31        # modify the horizontal and vertical position of the text entity
32        text_entity.horizontal_position = ipHorzTextPos.htpCentre
33        text_entity.vertical_position = ipVertTextPos.vtpMiddle
34
35    else:
36
37        # display a message in the output toolbox
38        impact.gui.output_toolbox.add("An error occured creating the text entity")
39
40else:
41
42    # display a message in the output toolbox
43    impact.gui.output_toolbox.add("Unable to find the text style sheet '" + str(text_style_sheet_name) + "'")