Matching size of shape to amount of text https://portal.smartbuilder.com/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=&threadId=608559 2026-03-09T08:43:10Z 2026-03-09T08:43:10Z Scott Sheridan https://portal.smartbuilder.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=608627 2024-04-12T18:36:45Z 2024-04-12T18:36:45Z

Thanks, Nav and John! <br />I&#039;ll take a look at both of these solutions and see which will work best for this activity.  <br />Scott

Scott Sheridan 2024-04-12T18:36:45Z John Malatino https://portal.smartbuilder.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=608609 2024-04-12T18:24:17Z 2024-04-12T18:24:17Z

HI Scott,<br /><br />A while ago I created something similar to what you are looking for. This link below to an .sb file simulates a texting conversion. Whith a little imagination it could easily be automated to have only one side of the conversation manually typed. Hope that helps. Im sure there a number of other ways something like this could be accomplished.<br /><br />https://share.suddenlysmart.com/public/support/conversation-divs.sb4 <br /><br />Thanks,<br />John Malatino

John Malatino 2024-04-12T18:24:17Z Navdeep Dhillon https://portal.smartbuilder.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=608587 2024-04-12T18:20:17Z 2024-04-12T18:19:49Z

Hi Scott,<br />There&#039;s a brand new feature on Shapes and Buttons called &#034;Shrink Text to Fit&#034; (see the properties for those two objects). Would that help? That&#039;s sort of the inverse of what you want - reduce the text to fit a specified shape, as opposed to grow the shape to the fit the text.<br /><br />I think all you can do at the moment is to use a scrolling text field to house the learner&#039;s text, or start checking to see how many characters the learner has typed in and show different sized shapes based on the how much text there is (0-100 chars = Shape 1; 101-200 chars = Shape 2, etc). You might have to change your whole layout of objects based on the amount of text, too (chats that have come before). I don&#039;t know how you&#039;d deal with an unlimited amount of text, either. Usually we use scrolling text for that sort of thing. Chat interfaces are pretty dynamic!<br /><br />Another new feature is to set the size the height (or width) of a Text or RichText object. Depending on the shape of your chat bubble, you might be able to use that. You would need to count characters and make a guess at the size, though.<br /><br />See attached screenshot. The red &#034;length&#034; block is found under Advanced &gt; Text. Hope one of those helps!

Navdeep Dhillon 2024-04-12T18:19:49Z Scott Sheridan https://portal.smartbuilder.com/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=&messageId=608558 2024-04-12T17:59:26Z 2024-04-12T17:59:26Z

Hello SB Team!  <br />I&#039;m working on a simulation of a new live chat platform in which users will be entering responses to scenarios.  After they type their response, I&#039;d like a bubble to be added to the chat thread with their response as the text.  Since we don&#039;t know how much or how little the rep will type, Is there a way to set the size of the shape to contain the amount of text that is entered?  The text would be held in a variable then the bubble would appear and text of the bubble set when the &#034;send&#034; button is clicked. <br />Any ideas would be appreciated!  <br />Scott

Scott Sheridan 2024-04-12T17:59:26Z