Android Question IDE question, how to handle long texts

Daniel-White · Feb 23, 2016

I know this is very trivial question, How I can put all the text easy to read without need scroll to right.

I saw some examples somewhere, but I did not remember how is the sintaxis.
Something like :

Msgbox("This is a long but very long text with too much bla la la bla bla bla bla etc etc
and continue here with the text bla bla end ", "My title")

If I am not wrong, we can use this symbol somewhere _

lemonisdead · Feb 23, 2016

Something like this ? Note the & because you have to concatenate the strings

B4X:

Msgbox("This is a long but very long text" _
& " with too much bla la la bla bla bla bla etc etc" _
& " and continue here with the text bla bla end " _
, "My title")

Daniel-White · Feb 23, 2016

lemonisdead said:
Something like this ? Note the & because you have to concatenate the strings

B4X:

Msgbox("This is a long but very long text" _ & " with too much bla la la bla bla bla bla etc etc" _ & " and continue here with the text bla bla end " _ , "My title")

Thanks you Indeed.

klaus · Feb 23, 2016

You have also the Wordwrapp option.

In the IDE menu Tools / IDE Options select the Font Picker.

In the Font Picker check WordWrap

Erel · Feb 24, 2016

The correct answer:

B4X:

Msgbox($"This is a long but very long text
with too much bla la la bla bla bla bla etc etc
and continue here with the text bla bla end"$, "My Title")

[B4X] Smart String Literal

lemonisdead · Feb 24, 2016

Excuse me but : is it preferable to do it like this ? (Reference to correct answer)

mangojack · Feb 24, 2016

@Erel .. should string closure not be ' "$ '

The above code throws.. Error Parsing Program ... String is not Closed (Missing "$)

This is OK

B4X:

myText = $"This is a long but very long text
   with too much bla la la bla bla bla bla etc etc
   And Continue here with the text bla bla end "$

Erel · Feb 24, 2016

lemonisdead said:
is it preferable to do it like this ?

Yes. It is simpler and is also more maintainable.

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