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Why can't I see my
MTEXT when it's highlighted and moved around on the screen?
Well, the concept of being able to see your highlighted text on screen
started with the creation of DTEXT
entities which is short for Dynamic Text.
The DTEXT is dynamic on
your screen as you enter the text
at the command line. This allows you to see the
relationship between other entities and your text entities as you type them
at the command line. DTEXT is also dynamic and visible when you
move the entities around when they are highlighted as a
selection set. This second point is one of the major reasons
why a lot of veteran users don't like to use
MTEXT. MTEXT is incredibley
useful for formatting and editing, but most of the time the text is
entered correct the first time and the formatting doesn't need to be too
exotic to be legible. Hence the attraction to sticking with the old tried
and true, simple DTEXT. But
wait! There is a trick to being able to see
that MTEXT block of text when dragging it around the screen after all.
Simply create a leader with some MTEXT
attached to it using the QLEADER command and
then erase the leader from the group of entities.
You are left with a
special piece of MTEXT that is now visible when copying or moving.
Now all you have to do is copy this
special type of viewable MTEXT instead of issuing the MTEXT command.
The next time you need some MTEXT
used that can be seen when highlighted, just copy an
existing piece of this special MTEXT. A readily available block
with the magic MTEXT in it could also be used.
Just explode the block to
return it to the special MTEXT entity.
Enjoy this tip, I use
this special MTEXT instead of DTEXT all the time
now!
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