Suggestion: More GUI Text tags

[ChibiChibiLuc]

It would be nice if some more GUI Text tags would be added to v4.

The main ones I'd like are bold font (<b>), italic font (<i>), underlined font (<i>), and something to disable the usage of tags.

[Rick]

You use the font tag to set bold, italics. It works this way because of how the font rendering works. (It generates a special cache representing a single font).

So if you want a bold Verdana at size 24, you do:

<font:Verdana Bold:24>

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Rick

You use the font tag to set bold, italics. It works this way because of how the font rendering works. (It generates a special cache representing a single font).

So if you want a bold Verdana at size 24, you do:

<font:Verdana Bold:24>

Won't work in Graal though, so I will need to add new tags for that and also parse the old font names and extract the "bold" etc.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Won't work in Graal though, so I will need to add new tags for that and also parse the old font names and extract the "bold" etc.

? Why not.

I thought he was referring to GUI controls, not showtext, etc.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Rick

? Why not.

I thought he was referring to GUI controls, not showtext, etc.

The "font" engine in Torque wants the font style inside the font name, while in TrueType rendering or with normal HTML code it is a separate attribute.