Re: [libredwg] Dabbling in some coding.

[Dave Coventry]

H Duncan,

I think I'm a little out of my depth.

I'm trying to read the text in the MTEXT entity, but post 2007 format,
the text array is stored as unsigned shorts, which I'm having
difficulty with.

~ Dave


On Fri, Jul 2, 2021 at 11:04 PM Duncan Lithgow <duncan.lithgow@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Dave
>
> Over at osarch.org we had a chat about the pros and cons of SVG for technical 
> documentation. https://community.osarch.org/discussion/170/
>
> I'm sure they'd love to share their progress and hear about what you're 
> working on.
>
> Duncan
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 3:08 PM Dave Coventry <dgcoventry@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do you know why it's only reading as 1, then?
>>
>> Where can I find the mechanism for reading the contents of an MTEXT string?
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 18, 2021 at 12:21 PM Reini Urban <reini.urban@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Dave Coventry <dgcoventry@gmail.com> schrieb am Fr., 18. Juni 2021, 10:10:
>> >>
>> >> Hi Reini,
>> >>
>> >> Still trying to read MTEXT.
>> >>
>> >> If I get the length of the text entity:
>> >>
>> >> Dwg_Entity_MTEXT *text = obj->tio.entity->tio.MTEXT;
>> >> size_t len=strlen(text->text);
>> >> fprintf(stderr, "mtext length is:%d\n",len);
>> >>
>> >> it gives me a length of 1.
>> >>
>> >> if the MTEXT entity is '\A1;1700', then the length should be 8.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Yes, the string would be  "\\A1;1700", so length 8
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Or is the backslash still messing with the results?
>> >>
>>