VS:Len

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Description

Function Len returns the length of the specified string value.

FUNCTION Len(
       v   :DYNARRAY[] of CHAR) : INTEGER;

def vs.Len(v):
    return INTEGER

Parameters

v

DYNARRAY[] of CHAR

Source string.

Remarks

Vectorworks 2018: This function will behave differently when used during dialog creation.

When used between VS:CreateLayout, VS:CreateResizableLayout and VS:RunLayoutDialog and VS:RunLayoutDialogN it will return the length of a string in bytes count, mimicking dialog units.

This means that the number might not be what you expect during the creation of the layout. In this case where this is a problem, you can use it outside the creation and move the value via a variable.

This was needed to solve alignment issues with Japanese and Unicode in Vectorworks 2018.

Version

Availability: from All Versions