Managing Text Scroll Text (Reposting for ease of finding)

Text Scroll has an issue with getting Text to wrap properly.
You will have to manually enter linefeeds at the proper position on each line.
This is rather insane.
Below is an automated and reliable solution for this problem.


This method uses Notepad++ , which works only on Windows.

If you are not using Notepad++
it is a free, ease to get going, and very powerful editor.
It is worth downloading and installing it just for this work alone.

Download link is:
https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/


Preparing Text for Text-Scroll in DVR.

It is actual pretty trivial, but laying out the steps explicitly makes it look long. Fear Not.


Step1:
Bring the text file into Notepad++.
You can also use Notepad++ for creating the text.


Step2:
You are going to use Find/Replace on the file.


Step3:
Menubar->Search->Replace

Step4:

Enter the following for the Find String

^(.{30,45})\s

Here 30 is the minimum width at which split will occur.
Scanning will start at character 30 and
proceed until it finds a space for
wrapping and inserting a line feed.
If it cannot find a space, before column 45, for example due to long URLs
it will not split the line, and you will have to
deal with that manually.

Step5:

Enter the following for the Replace String

\1\n

Step6:

Select Regular Expression and
Replace All.

Step 7:

You will see that file has been properly wrapped
with linefeeds at the right width.

Step 8:

Select All
Copy and then
Paste the copied text into
DR Text Scroll Area

Now check the behavior of Text Scroll.

Step9

On the Note Pad, use UNDO
to restore the Original Text
So you can redo again with different Widths
try out different values for 30,45 in step5 until
you get the best results with Text Scroll in DR.

Enjoy Sri.