Link the text content of two text objects

by Antti Last Updated October 19, 2019 20:15 PM

Is it possible to link text objects in such a manner, that changing the text content on one object will automatically also change the text of another text object.

To clarify, I do not want to link any other properties of those two objects (like fonts for example), only the source text.

Tags : text-object

Answers 2

this a script that uses the scene update handler to synchronize two text object content :

select the two text objects only
copy and paste the script and click run
once you edit one of the text objects the other one will get updated accordingly

import bpy

obj1 = bpy.context.selected_objects[0].name
obj2 = bpy.context.selected_objects[1].name

def link_text_objects(scene):
    obj = bpy.context.active_object
    if obj.type == 'FONT':
        if obj.name == obj1 : 
            scene.objects[obj2].data.body = obj.data.body

        else :
            scene.objects[obj1].data.body = obj.data.body

bpy.app.handlers.scene_update_pre.append(link_text_objects)

Chebhou
May 09, 2015 20:24 PM

In case somebody is looking at this with Blender 2.8. @Chebhou's script still works if you replace scene_update_pre with depsgraph_update_pre. So it's this:

import bpy

obj1 = bpy.context.selected_objects[0].name
obj2 = bpy.context.selected_objects[1].name

def link_text_objects(scene):
    obj = bpy.context.active_object
    if obj.type == 'FONT':
        if obj.name == obj1 : 
            scene.objects[obj2].data.body = obj.data.body

        else :
            scene.objects[obj1].data.body = obj.data.body

bpy.app.handlers.depsgraph_update_pre.append(link_text_objects)