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Naphier
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 19:32
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I had no idea I could do this... not sure if it is general knowledge and I just never thought of it, but if you want a text object with multiple lines then just insert a new line character... I feel silly not thinking of this before.


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Markus
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 20:00 Edited at: 7th Nov 2013 20:03
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the normal line break in windows is 13 10 = cr lf

createtext(1 , "Test newline"+chr(13)+chr(10)+"next line")

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Naphier
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 20:07
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Ah good to know, just 10 seemed to work though.

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JimHawkins
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 21:50
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Just #13 is fine as well.

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Van B
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 22:05
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It's possible to do some cool stuff with text, like, use other ascii values to say, change the colour of the text. I scan through the text 1 character at a time, then change the text depending on the ascii character.

Like this:



There's quite a lot you can do with the text in AGK.

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Naphier
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Posted: 7th Nov 2013 22:09
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You know what I'd really like? Is a function that does some smart sizing. For example, if I set textMaxWidth to 80 and I have a message like this:
Hi this is a message. It
is not our intention to
work correctly!

It would be awesome to do this instead:
Hi this is a message.
It is not our intention
to work correctly!

But I've no idea how to figure that out... I think it would be a bit of overhead like I'd need a text object for each sentence, determine if its width will cause it to carry over, if not and the rest of the message text will cause a carry over then insert a new line after the first sentence.
It could be done, but it would be messy!

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Rknight
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Posted: 20th Nov 2013 01:11
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Quote: "It's possible to do some cool stuff with text, like, use other ascii values to say, change the colour of the text. I scan through the text 1 character at a time, then change the text depending on the ascii character.
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Hmm, is it possible to use something like this to highlight a particular word in a textbox?

So far SetTextCharColor() hasn't seemed to be working for me?
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Rknight
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Posted: 21st Nov 2013 00:40
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Hmm, oh I see -- my mistake. I had tried to use it on an edit box instead of a normal text object.
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