FIXED: Text COMP Font Text Padding issues

Hello,
I’m seeing some issues with the Text COMP not updating when adjusting the “Font → Text Padding” parameters.

Also, some strange behaviour with the Text Padding in general.
I would have thought that the “Text Padding” parameters would essentially create a bounding-box inside, which is offset by the amount given by the appropriate parameter.
However, it doesn’t seem to work that way, and has some odd side effects.
I’ve included a tox that hopefully demonstrates this.

TD 2022.28040 on W10

BrokenPadding.1.tox (11.8 KB)

Hmm,
I might have hit the spacebar at some point, so the timeline wasn’t running.
Which may have cause my initial confusion, and I might have been digging into the wrong things here.

Thanks for the report. It does seem like something weird is going on. I’m looking into it now and will let you know what I find.

Ok, the issue will be fixed in our next update. The problem was with some overly aggressive optimizations - not everything was getting updated properly when only the padding was changed. When you changed the text, this forced a full update which is why that example of yours worked.

Thanks again for the report.

Wow, that was quick!
It’s unlikely to be something that is actually going to be scripted. Like I said, wrap it in a container and do it that way.
But it certainly wasn’t behaving itself, and as I tried to figure it out, it became weirder and weirder!