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Hi,

I'm trying to show up to three different text boxes based on how many characters are contained in a variable, however I have no idea how to do this and doing a quick search on these forums hasn't come up with anything.

To be clear, the variable I want to use to do the check on will just contain single words, e.g ant, queen, xylophone etc. It will only be one word at a time.

Any help regarding this matter would be much appreciated.

Check the OpusScript Help file.

var welcome = "Hello"
strLength = welcome.length

At least that's what I think you are after.

Jammy,

Here's another approach. But instead of using 3 Text Objects, use one and resize it (plus have an additional hidden Text box).

First, set up the 'hidden' Text Object making sure it uses the same font and size you will use for displayed text. Make this object long enough for the longest word you anticipate. Let's call this Text000

Insert your variable, for example, TheWord1.

The rest is simply a matter of finding the X-coordinate of the last character in Text000.
e.g., var charInfo = Text000.PointFromChar(String.length(TheWord1) -1) //you need to verify this, test this to make sure of using correct zero-based index.

Now, supposing you have created that one Text Object to display the text using the same TheWord1 variable... call it TextObj01, resize it to lengthen or shorten its width. Hint: Use charInfo.x from above.

How to resize TextObj01? Do a search on the forum for 'SetObjectSize'.
There are a couple other ways to change the object's dimensions and position. But you get the idea.