Shapescript - Can I set the Label Bold via command?

[Paolo F Cantoni]

Via the UI you can set the label colour and you can set the text to bold.  Within a shapescript, you can set the colour via setfontcolor(), but there doesn't seem to be a method to make the font bold.

Is there a method or is this another 80% solution?

TIA,
Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

There should be (it's fairly recent, I'm not sure if I ever used that)

One of the shape attributes is bold

bold

string

Description: Set to True if you want all print commands in the current shape or sub-shape to be displayed in bold.

Valid values: True or False (default = False)

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/shape_attributes.html

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

There should be (it's fairly recent, I'm not sure if I ever used that)

One of the shape attributes is bold

bold

string

Description: Set to True if you want all print commands in the current shape or sub-shape to be displayed in bold.

Valid values: True or False (default = False)

https://sparxsystems.com/enterprise_architect_user_guide/15.2/modeling/shape_attributes.html

Geert

Thanks, Geert,

But the help suggests it's used in a sub-shape.  I'm dealing with shape Label, a first-class shape.  Also, it's an attribute (IIRC - they can be conditional), whereas I need a command to allow me to set/unset as required.  Still, I'll try tomorrow and report back.  If anyone can come up with a command, please feel free.

Paolo

[Geert Bellekens]

The help says "shape or sub-shape"

And since the label is a shape, it should respond to the attribute bold.

I agree that it might be difficult to set it conditionally.
I'm guessing EA won't respond when if you put the bold attribute inside an if statement.

Workaround that maybe works is to have two labels on the same location, one bold, and one regular.
And then you simply put the print statement inside an if statement.

Geert

[Paolo F Cantoni]

The help says "shape or sub-shape"

And since the label is a shape, it should respond to the attribute bold.

I agree that it might be difficult to set it conditionally.
I'm guessing EA won't respond when if you put the bold attribute inside an if statement.

A workaround that maybe works is to have two labels on the same location, one bold, and one regular.
And then you simply put the print statement inside an if statement.

Geert

Yeah, that was my thought, but I'll wait till the morning after a (hopefully) good night's sleep.


Paolo

[Paolo F Cantoni]

[SNIP]
Workaround that maybe works is to have two labels on the same location, one bold, and one regular.
And then you simply put the print statement inside an if statement.

Geert

Not quite, Geert,
I needed to create two subshapes within the shape label and set the attributes accordingly and conditionalise the call as in:

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if(hastag("BoldIt","True"))
{
   addsubshape("bolder",100,100);
} else
{
   addsubshape("notbold",100,100);
}
shape bolder
{
   bold=true;
   printwrapped("#Alias# b");
}
shape notbold
{
   bold=false;
   printwrapped("#Alias# n");
}
But there were some unwelcome side effects (in typical Sparxian design)!
You can no longer select the label and move it!  (Separate bug report to be submitted)
There are some weird interactions with setfontcolor and other components of the shape (separate bug report to be submitted also).

Oh well...
Paolo