Graphics

I put text over a white bar/background. Is there a way to have the background go shorter or longer automatically based on how long the text is?

Yes, Visual Logic is the best way. This tutorial should be of some assistance.

http://www.rossvideo.com/graphics-system/xpression/xpression-u/video-tutorial-202.html

Essentially you just need to link the Quad Width to the Text Object's bounding box width.

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Thanks a bunch that works great. On the scenes I have tested they worked great. But I have a scene with a crawl and for some reason the quad will not expand. If I'm messing with it in Layout it works, but in the Sequence it never gets bigger. Any thoughts.


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I think there was a bug in older builds with visual logic in crawls.. You should try the latest official released software (version 6.2).


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