Set text size doesn't apply to line break (SOLVED)

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Trying to fit a certain text node to a variable sized area. The text has linebreak.
Still when using gui.set_size the node doesn’t change it’s linebreak but breaks at the width it was created.
I also tried creating a new node with code but same results. When creating a new textnode there are no way to set size at creation so it cannot be solved at creationtime.

Is there any way to solve this?

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Hmm, I would have expected it to adapt the linebreaks to the current width of the node. This must be an oversight or a simplification done when the text node was implemented. Any thoughts on this @Mathias_Westerdahl (I’m asking you since you did a bit of work on the text nodes and labels not too long ago)?

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Well, perhaps I’m not following you correctly, but the code supports it. Does this test illustrate what you wish to do?
https://forum.defold.com:/uploads/default/original/2X/1/131e8083115d5a75f7477465f3c886e97305b142.mov

The setup is one text object, with line_break set to true, and the code is simply (text.gui_script):

function init(self)
    gui.animate(gui.get_node("text"), "color", vmath.vector4(1,0,1,1), gui.EASING_LINEAR, 2, 0, nil, gui.PLAYBACK_LOOP_PINGPONG) 
    gui.animate(gui.get_node("text"), "size", vmath.vector4(50,100,0,1), gui.EASING_LINEAR, 2, 0, nil, gui.PLAYBACK_LOOP_PINGPONG)
end
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Ah, I realised that it was all about the text node size mode being set to AUTO.
Problem is that this checkbox isn’t visible in a text node (only for box nodes for some weird reason editor 1.2.95).
Changing it with code (or in a text editor in the gui file) made all the difference.

Problem solved. Thanks guys.

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