[Bf-python] TypeError adding Text to a scene

[Nery Chucuy]

Hello Ron,
I've been using Python API for some time and yes, the documentation is not
that clear but if you put a attention you'll get what you want.

What I think you want to use in this case is not a Text but a Text3d. Text
is for the TextEditor and Text3d is for the object that appears through the
menu: Add>Text.

Hope this helps,

Nery Chucuy (idesisnery)

2009/10/5 Ron Wheeler <rwheeler at artifact-software.com>

> In general, the API documentation is terrible (examples use methods or
> properties that do not appear in the documentation,
> lots of properties and methods seem to work that are not documented)
> but I have not been able to find the sources for any of the
> documentation or find the code for the classes in the sources so I can
> read them for the whole story.
>
> I am currently stuck on trying to add Text to a scene as a child of a
> mesh that I want to animate with a script.
>
> The following code is supposed to generate a text Object that I can
> associate to a mesh as a child.
>
> It generates an error.
> The scn is OK and I can add a camara, a Lamp and a bunch of meshes to it
> but creating text in the scene does not seem to work.
>
>
> def makeTextObject(scn,name,text,type="top"):
>   myTxt=Text.New("MyText")
>   myTxt.write("test Text")
>   print "Made a text called " + myTxt.name
>
>   textOb = scn.objects.new(myTxt)    #Generates the TypeError
>
>   print "Made a Text object called " + textOb.name + "containing" + text
>   return textOb
>
>
>
> TypeError: expected an object and optionally a string as arguments
>
> x
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