Dynamic Text items on the board don't retain settings after content replace

zachwcohn

I'd like to be able to add a bunch of .txt files as media and set their font/size/alignment all at once.

To accomplish this, I attempted to create one piece of media on my board which has the formatting I was looking for. I then copied that into a different column and went to replace the media by dragging the separate .txt file onto the media while holding Option. Unfortunately, this cleared font/size/alignment settings. This seems different from how video files work.

Is there a better approach for this?

Millumin

Hello @zachwcohn,

Yes indeed, the properties of a text-media are not re-imported when you replace one. We will see if we can improve this behavior in a near future.

In the meantime, you could use a script to copy the properties from one text-media to another. For example :

value = Millumin.getMediaProperty("layer", 1, "font size")
Millumin.setMediaProperty("layer", 2, "font size", value)

And in a more generic script (that you can use right away) :

Parameter.createParameter("layer name", "Layer")
Parameter.createParameter("column source", 1, true, [1,100])
Parameter.createParameter("column target", 0, true, [0,100])
Parameter.addInfo("set at 0 to use the launched column")
Parameter.addSpace()
Parameter.createButton("Copy", copyProperties)

function copyProperties()
{
    var layerName = Parameter.get("layer name")
    var columnSource = Parameter.get("column source")
    var columnTarget = Parameter.get("column target")
    if( columnTarget == 0 )
    {
        columnTarget = Millumin.getLaunchedColumnIndex()
    }
    var properties = ["use whole text", "fontFamilyName", "fontName", "underlined", "font size", "alignment", "color", "force size"]
    properties.forEach(propertyName => {
        var value = Millumin.getMediaProperty(layerName, columnSource, propertyName)
        Millumin.setMediaProperty(layerName, columnTarget, propertyName, value)
        log(propertyName+" = "+value)
    })
}

Best. Philippe