Line breaks in text field objects

[afetzer]

Hi,

we are desperately trying to insert line breaks into text fields.

While \\n, for example is working for primitive text, it isn't for text fields. I was wondering if someone in the community has more experience with that?

Thank you very much in advance for all support provided!

[fmulder]

try \\r\\n (or \\n\\r)

share the fun
Frenk Mulder

[joost.lijster@siemens.com]

Or, in case of rich formatting, use html ( )

[RudiKreiner]

. . . and in tool tip text you can use html formatting like in this example:
this.toolTipText = "" + dpGetDescription(dp_name) + "";

[schneebergera]

Hello,

please use different text field.
--> "Multiline text"

e.g.
main()
{
this.text("first row\\r\\nsecond row!");
}

best regards,
Andreas

[fmulder]

I'd prefer the following syntax:

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void main()
{
  this.text = 
    "First line\\r\\n"          // Note how you can put a string on multiple lines !
    "Second row\\r\\n"
    "Third row";
}

or

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void main()
{
  string strLinefeed = "\\r\\n";

  this.text = 
    "First line"       + strLinefeed         
    "Second row"  + strLinefeed
    "Third row";
}

Good luck with your multiline

Share + \\r\\n
The + \\r\\n
fun

Frenk Mulder

[afetzer]

Many thanks for the input to everybody.
The main issue for us, thanks to your feedback, turned out to be that a text field element is not the right one for multi-line text, but we have to use the multi-line element.

Always good to learn something. Again, thank you very much.