Tracking for txt variable doest'n work

[Hugo Jourdan]

Hi,

I started to write a Drawbot script to build automatic proofing files for my fonts.

I would like to change the tracking of a textBox, but there is a problem.
When I use a variable as txt, tracking doesn't work (example bellow)

textBox(FormattedString(txt=Text_sample, fontSize=50, tracking=200, font='Helvetica'), (10, 10, 400, 400)

But If I replace the variable Text_sample by a real text with '', it's work.

textBox(FormattedString(txt='Test', fontSize=50, tracking=200, font='Helvetica'), (10, 10, 400, 400)

How can I apply tracking to a textBox ?
Or If it's not possible does it exist an alternative ?

Thanks !

[Artur]

Is this something that would work for you?

newPage('A4Landscape')
BORDER = 20
Text_sample = 'ABCDEFGI'
t = FormattedString()
t.font('Helvetica')
t.fontSize(18)
t.lineHeight(32)
t.tracking(100)
t.append(Text_sample)
textBox(t, (BORDER, BORDER, width()-BORDER*2, height()-BORDER*2))

[frederik]

Could you elaborate what is not working?

Tracking can be added to formattedString during init or as with the t.tracking(value) method.

Text_sample = "Test"

textBox(
    FormattedString(
        txt=Text_sample, 
        fontSize=50, 
        tracking=200, 
        font='Helvetica'
    ), 
    (10, 10, 400, 400)
)

textBox(
    FormattedString(
        txt='Test', 
        fontSize=50, 
        tracking=200, 
        font='Helvetica'
    ), 
    (10, 300, 400, 400)
)

[Hugo Jourdan]

Thanks for your help!
I don't know what was wrong in my code, but if yours everything is working !