Summary: Demonstrates how to select text objects by their text height.

Would it not be great of Rhino could select text by height, within a given range?

The following script will do such a selection.

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 ' SelTextHeight.rvb -- July 2009
 ' If this code works, it was written by Dale Fugier.
 ' If not, I don't know who wrote it.
 ' Works with Rhino 4.0 and 5.0
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 Option Explicit
 
 ' Global variables
 Public g_min_height
 Public g_max_height
 
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 ' Selects text objects based on their text height
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 Sub SelTextHeight()
 
   ' Local variables
   Dim min_height, max_height
   Dim objects, obj, height, sel_count
 
   ' Initialize global variables, if necessary
   If IsEmpty(g_min_height) Or IsNull(g_min_height) Then g_min_height = 1.0
   If IsEmpty(g_max_height) Or IsNull(g_max_height) Then g_max_height = 1.0
 
   ' Prompt for minimum height
   min_height = Rhino.GetReal("Minimum text height", g_min_height, 0.0)
   If IsNull(min_height) Then Exit Sub
 
   ' Prompt for maximum height
   max_height = Rhino.GetReal("Maximum text height", g_max_height, min_height)
   If IsNull(min_height) Then Exit Sub
   If (min_height > max_height) Then Exit Sub
 
   ' More initialization
   g_min_height = min_height
   g_max_height = max_height
   sel_count = 0
 
   Rhino.EnableRedraw False
 
   ' Find text objects that meet our criteria      
   objects = Rhino.ObjectsByType(512) 'annotations
   For Each obj In objects
     If Rhino.IsText(obj) Then
       height = Rhino.TextObjectHeight(obj)
       If (g_min_height <= height) And (height <= g_max_height) Then
         If Rhino.SelectObject(obj) Then sel_count = sel_count + 1
       End If    
     End If
   Next
 
   Rhino.EnableRedraw True
 
   Rhino.Print CStr(sel_count) & " text added to selection."
 
 End Sub
 
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 Rhino.AddStartupScript Rhino.LastLoadedScriptFile
 Rhino.AddAlias "SelTextHeight", "_NoEcho _-RunScript (SelTextHeight)"