Configure element max width

[glsp-bot]

I have figure with text on it. I want to set figure maximum width. And if text width is more then figure width i want text autowrap. Can i do this in glsp?

original thread by MoHcmp

[CamilleLetavernier]

Hi,

AFAIK, text autowrap is currently not supported by GLSP (Because it relies on SVG for rendering, which doesn't support Text wrap). You'll need to provide a custom View for your Label, and manually add new lines where you want to cut the text. Alternatively, you can use an HTML Div for rendering the Text, and let the Div handle the word-wrapping for you.

HTH,
Camille

[planger]

Hi, right as Camille says there is no SVG-native support for this in GLSP and Sprotty. However, you can use foreignObjects. We've introduced support in Sprotty for that, see eclipse-sprotty/sprotty#171

[planger]

With foreignObjects you can render HTML, which supports auto-wrapping text. This has the disadvantage though that showing the exported SVG will only work in browsers but not in generic SVG viewers.

[planger]

The foreign object can take the fixed width of the parent SModelElement or it can a child of a resizable SModelElement.

[glsp-bot]

[MoHcmp]

Thank you for fast answer