OpenEuphoria

Re: A few simple questions...

• Posted by Michael Nelson <MichaelANelson at WORLDNET.ATT.NET> Feb 01, 2001
• 417 views

Scott Husen wrote:

<snip>
 Do you know of anyway to do a wrap function that wraps the text for
> long sentences but not at whatever letter the side of the screen ends at
> but then goes back to the last Word and wraps it?
>
</snip>

The following code will do it on DOS or Linux, printing a given text string
with word wrapping:

include graphics.e

global procedure wrap_text(sequence theText)
-- For DOS and Linux
-- Wraps text at end of last word in line.
-- Honors newlines in the text, replaces tabs with 5 spaces.
-- Assumes that theText is a valid string
   sequence vidconf,pos
   integer  cols,col,index
   vidconf=video_config()
   cols=vidconf[VC_COLUMNS]
   pos=get_position()
   col=pos[2]-1
   theText=repeat(' ',col)&theText
   while 1 do
      index=find('\t',theText)
      if index=0 then exit end if
      theText=theText[1..index-1]&repeat(' ',5)
      &theText[index+1..length(theText)]
   end while
   while length(theText)>cols do
      index=find('\n',theText)
      if index>0 and index<=cols then
         puts(1,theText[col+1..index])
         theText=theText[index+1..length(theText)]
         col=0
      else
         for i=cols to 1 by -1 do
            if theText[i]=' ' then
               theText[i]='\n'
               exit
            end if
            if i=1 then

            end if
         end for
      end if
   end while
   if length(theText)>0 then
      puts(1,theText)
   end if
end procedure