I rarely deal with long text (paragraphs) in canvases and was suprised to see that g.drawstring does not respect “endofline”. Is there a special trick to drawing text with endoflines in them? I could have sworn a few years ago I was drawing endofline in canvases just fine… 
Have a look at the third parameter of the drawstring function: http://documentation.xojo.com/index.php/Graphics.DrawString
Actually you mean the fourth parameter Wrapwidth 
Ah yes. Counting is harder than it seems 
While currently working on a project which uses EndOfLine in a DrawString for a Canvas, I can confirm it still works as expected in Xojo like it did in RS. WrapWidth just does this automatically for you.
I’m rather wondering how to wrap text using StringShapes…
Got it working I can post an example if desired.
Solutions are always welcome. So, yes, post yours. Others will be thankful, when stumbling across this matter.
I can wrap text, that is not the issue. I can’t get endofline or line breaks to work in canvases. Here’s a screenshot of what happens. I copied some text from CNN, paste it into a textfield (with styledtext turned off) and have them rendered on a canvas: http://koualo.com/beta/eofissueoncanvas.png
All of those little diamonds with the ? in them are line breaks or endoflines. I even manually put “hello” + endofline + endofline + “world.” and still get the little black diamond.
I would certainly love to see how you are doing it because it is not working for me.
Perhaps there’s a better way to create dynamically sized “listboxes” (height-wise) than faking it with a canvas?
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To handle drawing multiline strings I wrote code that handled wrapping myself. It first splits the text into paragraphs at linebrakes, then wraps the lines for each paragraph and returns the physical lines as a string array…
(all this assume a unstyled text)
Once you have that array, using g.textheight you know how tall it needs to be and can easily draw it…
I use the same approach when dealing with stringshapes
This approach lets me control line spacing and justification… and for list box use I also have it add an ellipsis if the wrapped text won’t fit in a specified rectangle.
If you copy text from elsewhere it may not have the right EndOfLine format for your platform. That’s the reason.
Indeed, make sure you use ReplaceLineEndings(), otherwise I do it exactly as Karen described.
Funy, I actually thought of doing that but I just became very lazy last night. But this morning, I was thinking that maybe it would be much simpler for me to use a HTML Viewer instead of a canvas to “fake” a dynamic listbox…
I also said that I entered directly into the paint event: “hello” + endofline + endofline + “world.” – and same thing happened. 
I think the only solution to this canvas issue is to use a split and then manually calculate the next position of the text in the split array. I wish that canvas would just support endofline natively.
Then something else must be wrong. As I stated above, it works for me. (tested)
Whew, figured it out. I forgot to .DefineEncoding(Encodings.UTF8) when retreiving from the sqlite db.
Thank you everyone, for helping me figure this out.