new stuff for showimg text

[Warcaptain]

i think the letter 'f' should be added for fitted, to fit the text on the screen by returning when needed.

this would be very useful for chat programs, menus, etc.

[nyghtGT]

Originally posted by Warcaptain
i think the letter 'f' should be added for fitted, to fit the text on the screen by returning when needed.

this would be very useful for chat programs, menus, etc.

indeed it is, thanx a lot ...

[Xaviar]

Originally posted by nyghtGT

indeed it is, thanx a lot ...

Personally, I just want built in suport for wrapping text around when it overruns the screen...

[joseyisleet]

Ok, I don't know if this will work or not, but try something like this.

this.text = <yourtexthere>
this.text.SelStart = Len(this.text)
this.text.SelLength = 0

I wrote that in VB. I haven't tried it yet, but it may work. No clue.

Or try

this.text = Len(this.text)

I don't know if that'll work either, but you can try.

[entravial]

~AlphaFlame~

if (playerchats){
this.length=strlen(#c);
for(this.done=0;this.done<int(this.length/32)+1;this.done++){
setstring chatline#v(this.done),#e(this.done*32,32,#c);
}
}

Something like that? I haven't tested in graal editor, but that's the basic idea...

[Warcaptain]

yeah but that has a few flaws:


it doesnt take into affect the width of the font\letters, only the length of the text.

and if it wrapped automaticly wraps it no matter how many lines.

width of font\letters isnt scripted, so its impossible as is.

itd be very nice if stefan added a wrap option to showimg text

[Cybnext_Design]

I wrote a script like this for Xaviar. The only problem was, it messes up when you use lower-case letters. But if you want to see it, forum PM me or give me an IM at C Y B N E X T.

[zell12]

this would be nice so that ya wouldn't have to keep makins small messages, ya can just make one big one without making it go of the screen

[Xaviar]

Sure, you can script it, but I want hard-coded support for it...And Cybnext, it also went letter-by-letter, so it screwed up words on the end, I'm gonna re-do it

[ShockwaveISTHEBEST]

That would make things a lot simpler putting it into the real graal scripting commands. It would take one line instead of the 4 or 5 we have to use now.

[Warcaptain]

thats the point

[Cybnext_Design]

Originally posted by Xaviar
Sure, you can script it, but I want hard-coded support for it...And Cybnext, it also went letter-by-letter, so it screwed up words on the end, I'm gonna re-do it

It worked for me, although it might depend on different screenwidths, so I guess that might of been the problem

[nyghtGT]

well the chat for my server allredy made text tha was over 42 charcters long everything after it it extracted and added to line t so itwould like like:

nyghtGT: blah blah blah Blah
blah bah blah
nyghtGT: testing ...
nyghtGT: testing ....

and so on ... this sorta helps, but like you guys have said... "it could be much better...."

[btedji]

This would be a pain but you could figure out what the actual pixel width of each letter and space is, but not a whole lot of people want to do that much work.

[Xaviar]

Originally posted by Cybnext_Design


It worked for me, although it might depend on different screenwidths, so I guess that might of been the problem

Nah, the problem was that if you typed "Once upon a time, there were three little bears.", and the first e in three went over the char limit per line, it would wrap it around like this:

"Once upon a time, there were thr
ee little bears."

But don't worry about it, I can set up my own

[Warcaptain]

Originally posted by btedji
This would be a pain but you could figure out what the actual pixel width of each letter and space is, but not a whole lot of people want to do that much work.

still remember..

some fots are huge width\heigth

and some are very tiny.

and no way to determine the width of the individual character's width.


W
W
see difference in width?

[zell12]

but you can set the font on a chatting thing...

[zell12]

its something like:
showimg 202,@Copperplate Gothic Bold@buc@Menu,screenwidth/5+screenwidth/4,screenheight/4+screenwidth/45;