Paragraph Text Box Control (Reversed)!

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

I assume you want the text to wrap onto new lines within the shape rectangle?

I don’t think you can access the text bounding box, other than reading its value, with expressions.

The only way I can think of doing this (with expressions) is some complicated combination of moving the text box position and adding (and removing) manual line breaks to try and approximate the width of the shape.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Here’s an attempt at it. It is breaking a paragraph onto lines after a certain number of letters that depends on the width of the rectangle. It’s not that accurate, as the number of letters doesn’t necessarily correspond to length of line, but it is something. Using this, all text should be the same size and there should be no line breaks in the original source text.

Comp has a rectangle named “Rect” and a text layer that covers the maximum size of the rectangle.

Code for source text:

txt = value;
done = 0;
esc = 0;
len =0;
row = Math.floor(thisComp.layer("Rect").sourceRectAtTime(time).width*thisComp.layer("Rect").scale[0]/1220);//divisor depends on type size
while (done == 0){
esc ++;
len+=row;
if (txt.length >= len+1){
for (i = len; i > len-row; i--) if (txt[i] == " ") break;
if (i > len-row){
txt=txt.substr(0,i) + "\r" + txt.substr(i+1,9999);
}
}
len = i;
if (esc>100){done=1}
}
txt

[Bilal Alsurri]

Thanks a lot Kalle, appreciate it.