It works for me! The answer seems kind of obvious, in retrospect =) Thanks! --E
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Roger Whitcomb < [email protected]> wrote: > So to set a newline in a bxml file you have to use the XML escape > mechanism(s). That's all. For example: or 
 > > ~Roger Whitcomb > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 22, 2013, at 3:00 AM, Sandro Martini <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Erik, > > you have reason, currently I find multiline label samples only in > > LabelTest.java class, I have to add a bxml version of it ... > > Searching in our sources, I find other examples for multiline strings > > (in bxml files), but for other components (TableView, and related > > renderers), like: table_pane_test2.bxml, table_pane_test4.bxml ... but > > these could be a starting point. Could you do some tests starting from > > here ? > > > > Anyway this could be a BXMLSerializer issue (LabelSkin does the line > > splitting if it finds the \n snside the label text , but as a single > > char), so we have to verify it. > > > > Roger, what do you think ? > > > > Let's update. > > > > Bye > > > > 2013/8/22 Erik Innocent <[email protected]>: > >> Thanks everyone for your help so far! I've yet another question. > >> > >> How do I place a newline in a Label's text in BXML? I see that in 2.0.3, > >> Pivot began supporting text labels with hard newlines with the "\n" > >> character > >> ( > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/pivot-commits/201301.mbox/%[email protected]%3E > ), > >> but this seems only to work programmatically. > >> > >> As a workaround, I've tried the following things, which all fail: > >> > >> Placing "\n" as the value of the text attribute in the label in BXML. > This > >> shows up as "\n" in the application, and "\\n" when viewing the > >> label.getText() result > >> Using "\\n" as the value instead, in hopes that the double backslash > might > >> escape. It does not, and the label text appears as "\\n" in the app. > >> Doing label.setText(label.getText()) with 'text="\n" in BXML'. Doesn't > work > >> because the "\n" is already escaped to "\\n". I suppose I could do a > replace > >> of "\\" with "\" before setText(), but it seems inelegant to have to > >> initialize all labels like this. > >> > >> Other than setting the label programmatically, any tips? Note that > setting > >> the value programmatically does work for me. I've got "wrapText:true" > set in > >> my tests. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> --E > > >
