A newline in DrawText?

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zcbeaton

(Posted 2008) [#1]

How can I draw a new line in DrawText? I want to use DrawText for the credits in my game, but for some reason ~n doesn't seem to create a new line, like I expected it too. Can anybody help?

GfK	(Posted 2008) [#2]

You have to draw each line separately.

zcbeaton

(Posted 2008) [#3]

Oh. That sucks. But thanks for responding.

Russell

(Posted 2008) [#4]

What would be cool is if drawtext put in a newline at the end of each statement IF there are no 'x,y' parameters; otherwise it would work as it does now. So that..

DrawText "Line number one",0,0      ' Start at the top of the screen
DrawText "Line number two"          ' This one gets put right under the first one
DrawText "Left side " + string_variable + " right side" ' Under line two
DrawText "Line number four",200,0  ' This one is to the right of the first

Anyway, it's not too much trouble to write a function that does this...

Russell

Grey Alien

(Posted 2008) [#5]

How about making a line typing type which you pass text to and that increases the Y coord ready for the next line (I did that).

plash

(Posted 2008) [#6]

How about making a line typing type which you pass text to and that increases the Y coord ready for the next line (I did that).

That's also what Wiering.bmfont does.

You may want to take a peek at it too - do a forum search.

Warpy

(Posted 2008) [#7]

Function DrawLines(txt$,x,y)
  For line$=EachIn txt.split("~n")
    DrawText line,x,y
    y:+TextHeight(line)
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