Display strings in TouchGFX

[Iswarya]

Hi,

How to display strings in TouchGFX which is not defined previously in GUI

[Martin KJELDSEN]

Hi @Iswarya​,

When you say GUI, do you mean "not defined previously in Designer" ? The designer manages an excel sheet of all the texts that you input through the designer interface. Are you talking about a text that changes dynamically?

/Martin

[Iswarya]

Hi Martin,

Yes, you are right. I'm asking about to change text dynamically. I could display a character on the fly but not string. Say, I could display a character "S" but not string "SUCCESS".

[Martin KJELDSEN · Accepted solution]

Oh, so you're already using wildcards? Then i think it's just an issue with your text area not adjusting its width to the new text =) call textArea.resizeToCurrentText() - Or disable auto resize in the designer for that text area and just make the textarea wide enough to hold whatever text you want to display.

/Martin

[Martin KJELDSEN]

E.g. The designer generates a textarea for you that is the size of 1 char because you haven't populated it with anything yet. So when you update the textarea wildcard buffer, the size of the textarea remains the same because the textarea does not "listen" for any updates to its buffer.

/Martin

[ABeck.1]

HI,

I want to display "ABC" but it is displaying only C, not ABC, What could be the reason?

Any help is appreciated.

Anju

[Martin KJELDSEN]

I need way more info to help :) My guess is that this is a textarea with a wild-card? And you haven't specified wild-card characters for A and B (you should be seeing "??C" in this case OR you have a right aligned text-area that is too short, so the A and B are there, but cut off.

Which one

/Martin