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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Bentley Technical Support&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Symptoms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If in VBA a new text element is generated, it is often necessary to change its properties including the font. It may happen that this change isn&amp;#39;t made, for example, the following sequence will not be executed:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre class="brush: vb; fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; "&gt;Sub TextFontNotChanged()
    Dim tEle As TextElement
    Dim oFont As Font
    Set tEle = CreateTextElement1(Nothing, &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)
    Set oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    Set tEle.TextStyle.Font = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle
End Sub&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;However, when the new text font initially allocates an object of type &amp;quot;text font&amp;quot;, it will work, as shown in this VBA routine:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;pre class="brush: vb; fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; "&gt;Sub textfontchange()
    Dim tEle As TextElement
    Dim oFont As Font
    Set tEle = CreateTextElement1(Nothing, &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)
    Set oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    Set tEle.TextStyle.Font = oFont
    ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle
End Sub&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: VBAWindows 7 32 bit, MicroStation, Windows 7 64 bit, Programming, en, SELECTsupport&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>New Text Font Cannot be Assigned</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/22505/new-text-font-cannot-be-assigned/revision/2</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:57:31 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:65db2a66-7002-46d0-91a1-d16435042db4</guid><dc:creator>Tristan Anderson</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/22505/new-text-font-cannot-be-assigned#comments</comments><description>Revision 2 posted to MicroStation Wiki by Tristan Anderson on 7/13/2015 1:57:31 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
&lt;td&gt;Tristan Anderson, Bentley Technical Support Group&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Symptoms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If in VBA a new text element is generated, it is often necessary to change its properties including the font. It may happen that this change isn&amp;#39;t made, for example, the following sequence will not be executed:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;pre class="brush: vb; fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; "&gt;Sub TextFontNotChanged()
    Dim tEle As TextElement
    Dim oFont As Font
    Set tEle = CreateTextElement1(Nothing, &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)
    Set oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    Set tEle.TextStyle.Font = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle
End Sub&lt;/pre&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;However, when the new text font initially allocates an object of type &amp;quot;text font&amp;quot;, it will work, as shown in this VBA routine:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="line number1 index0 alt2" style="background:white;text-transform:none;color:#000000;text-align:left;margin:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;border:0px;"&gt;
&lt;pre class="brush: vb; fontsize: 100; first-line: 1; "&gt;Sub textfontchange()
    Dim tEle As TextElement
    Dim oFont As Font
    Set tEle = CreateTextElement1(Nothing, &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)
    Set oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)
    Set tEle.TextStyle.Font = oFont
    ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle
End Sub&lt;/pre&gt;
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&lt;div style="font-size: 90%;"&gt;Tags: VBAWindows 7 32 bit, MicroStation, Windows 7 64 bit, Programming, en, 08.11.09.578, SELECTsupport&lt;/div&gt;
</description></item><item><title>New Text Font Cannot be Assigned</title><link>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/22505/new-text-font-cannot-be-assigned/revision/1</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2015 13:56:29 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">6dad98f5-dbc9-4c4d-a9ba-e9da8dc6aa8e:65db2a66-7002-46d0-91a1-d16435042db4</guid><dc:creator>Tristan Anderson</dc:creator><comments>https://communities.bentley.com/products/microstation/w/microstation__wiki/22505/new-text-font-cannot-be-assigned#comments</comments><description>Revision 1 posted to MicroStation Wiki by Tristan Anderson on 7/13/2015 1:56:29 PM&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;td style="text-align:right;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Original Author:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Symptoms&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If in VBA a new text element is generated, it is often necessary to change its properties including the font. It may happen that this change isn&amp;#39;t made, for example, the following sequence will not be executed:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Helvetica"&gt;Sub TextFontNotChanged()&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Dim tEle As TextElement&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Dim oFont As Font&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Set tEle = CreateTextElement1(Nothing, &amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Set oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Set tEle.TextStyle.Font = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;" /&gt;&lt;font style="white-space:normal;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;font&gt;End Sub&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Helvetica"&gt;However, when the new text font initially allocates an object of type &amp;quot;text font&amp;quot;, it will work, as shown in this VBA routine:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div class="line number1 index0 alt2" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Sub&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;textfontchange()&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number2 index1 alt1" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Dim&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;tEle &lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;As&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;TextElement&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number3 index2 alt2" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Dim&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;oFont &lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;As&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Font&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number4 index3 alt1" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Set&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;tEle = CreateTextElement1(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Nothing&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;, &lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb string" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;quot;hello&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;, Point3dZero, Matrix3dIdentity)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number5 index4 alt2" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Set&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;oFont = ActiveDesignFile.Fonts(&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb string" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;quot;Verdana&amp;quot;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;)&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number6 index5 alt1" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Set&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;tEle.TextStyle.Font = oFont&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number7 index6 alt2" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb spaces" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/code&gt;&lt;code class="vb plain" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;ActiveModelReference.AddElement tEle&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div class="line number8 index7 alt1" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:white;border-bottom:0px;text-transform:none;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:left;margin:0px;border-left:0px;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;"&gt;&lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;End&lt;/code&gt; &lt;code class="vb keyword" style="border-top:0px;border-right:0px;background:none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%;border-bottom:0px;margin:0px;border-left:0px;"&gt;Sub&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

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