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Hello all, I'm hoping someone can help me with a solution.

I have a L3rd bar that we place tweets into via a database. My problem is the producer wants me to fill the space of the bar. Therefore, tweets with less words (smaller) need to be bigger and longer tweets (bigger) need to be smaller in size to fix all the text. I have a script below but I keep getting inconsistent results from it. 1 show it will work fine and then next show won't. Not sure if i'm missing something in my script? The goal is to get this as automated as possible because producers want to start using live tweets. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

dim textobject as xpTextObject

self.GetObjectByName("Tweet", textobject)

textobject.PosY = 325

textobject.ScaleX = 1.0

textobject.ScaleY = 1.0

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1720.00

if textobject.LineCount = 1 then

textobject.PosY = 280

textobject.ScaleX = 1.0

textobject.ScaleY = 1.0

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1773.00

elseif textobject.LineCount = 2 then

textobject.PosY = 320

textobject.ScaleX = 0.950

textobject.ScaleY = 0.950

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1800.00

elseif textobject.LineCount = 3 then

textobject.PosY = 335

textobject.ScaleX = .7

textobject.ScaleY = .7

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 2418.00

end if

I think the major problem is the word wrap length keeps changing each time the datalinq puts in new text; which cause the text wrap to screw up.

Anyone run into this problem before?

#XPression

Hello,

I'm wondering if it's getting confused by having a set of coordinates and wordwrap and then you get an if statement. What are the first set of coordinates for?

textobject.PosY = 325

textobject.ScaleX = 1.0

textobject.ScaleY = 1.0

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1720.00

Is the default to have 1 line? Does it go more than 3 lines?

i have found that it's easiest to start with the largest and work your way down. With the last statement being the lowest number. Below starts with if 3 lines, then 2 lines otherwise it will be one line and do this.

dim textobject as xpTextObject

self.GetObjectByName("Tweet"�, textobject)

if textobject.LineCount = 3 then

textobject.PosY = 335

textobject.ScaleX = .7

textobject.ScaleY = .7

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 2418.00

else if textobject.LineCount = 2 then

textobject.PosY = 320

textobject.ScaleX = 0.950

textobject.ScaleY = 0.950

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1800.00

Else

textobject.PosY = 280

textobject.ScaleX = 1.0

textobject.ScaleY = 1.0

textobject.WordWrapWidth = 1773.00

end if

I'm just unclear what the first set of actions are for?

Does this help?

#XPression

Hi Lesley, ignore the first set of actions. I put those in while trying to trouble shoot the problem. Thinking that if I started with a default I may track down the issue. Thanks for the advice.

S.

#XPression