2dlabels with solid background

Hi Gabe, Unfortunately there is no color key command. Here's another creative solution. Make the label background be another label using unicode squares. 2dlabels create b1 text '\u2588\u2588\u2588' color white xpos .5 ypos .7 size 64 This uses the square unicode character, hexadecimal 2588. This solution has the advantage that you can fade out this background together with the label. In order for the text label to appear on top of background label you have to create the text label after creating the background. I'd recommend making all the labels and backgrounds interactive with the 2dlabel dialog and saving them in a session which you use together with your movie script. The script will show and hide the labels that have already been made, sized, positioned. You can cut and paste the unicode square character, say from web page into the 2dlabel dialog. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters This solution doesn't make it easy to make an outline around the background box. Elaine suggested that you just make another slightly bigger background in the outline color. That has the problem that the vertical outline edges are thicker than the horizontal ones if the the background is wider than it is tall. To get uniform thickness outline you could make two extra background boxes one square shorter than the normal background and slide them horizontally them to get vertical outline edges of equal thickness. Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: 2dlabels From: Gabriel Lander To: Tom Goddard Date: 11/19/11 6:59 PM

Hi Gabe, One more tricky detail. If you create a label with the 2dlabel dialog the name of the label for use with the 2dlabel command is label2d_id_0, label2d_id_1, label2d_id_2, .... For example, 2d change label2d_id_0 color pink Tom 2d change label2d_id_0 color pink
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