string examples.

base.py

@@ -406,7 +406,7 @@ class rStringList(rObject):
 	rName = "rStringList"
 	rType = 0x8007
 
-	def __init__(self, strings, **kwargs):
+	def __init__(self, *strings, **kwargs):
 		super().__init__(**kwargs)
 		self.children = [str_to_bytes(x) for x in strings]
 
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ class rStringList(rObject):
 
 	def _rez_string(self):
 		rv = "\t{\n"
-		rv += ",\n".join([format_string_multi(x) for x in self.children])
+		rv += ",\n".join([multi_format_string(x, "\t\t") for x in self.children])
 		if self.children: rv += "\n"
 		rv += "\t}"
 		return rv

examples/string.prez

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#
+# text can be a python string or a bytes object.
+# strings are assumed to be utf-8 encoded and will be converted to macroman
+# bytes are left as-is
+#
+# n.b. - in Rez, \r and \n are reversed.
+# In prez, they have their standard (python) meaning.
+#
+
+rText("rText")
+rTextBlock(b"rTextBlock") # bytes 
+rTextForLETextBox2("rTextForLETextBox2")
+rAlertString("rAlertString")
+rErrorString("rErrorString")
+
+
+from textwrap import dedent
+rComment(dedent("""
+	rComment
+
+	multi-line python string.
+""")) # remove leading space from the mult-line string.
+rPString("rPString")
+rCString("rCString")
+rWString("rWString")
+rC1InputString("rC1InputString")
+
+rStringList('rStringList', b"rStringList", r"rStringList")