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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Word wrap?

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Tapewormz
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Posted: 11th May 2004 00:28
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Is there a wordwrap in DPB or am I going to need to set up a routine to parse strings and count string lengths and do my own cr?

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Surreal Studio IanG
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Posted: 11th May 2004 00:36
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i don't think there is a function for word wrap - i might be wrong- but i would write my own function

check the code base

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GameKit
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Posted: 11th May 2004 01:39
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I think there was a "Hidden" Command in DBC called "PrintC"... If i remember correctly it worked just like print only wrapped the text...

Well... I hope I helped...

PS: There were other hidden commands like "leebamber" that would print strange random quotes of lee's on the screen.

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Posted: 11th May 2004 01:57
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Quote: "PS: There were other hidden commands like "leebamber" that would print strange random quotes of lee's on the screen."


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Tapewormz
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Posted: 11th May 2004 02:21 Edited at: 11th May 2004 02:23
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I didn't know there was a PRINTC command. Neat! Is it in manuals? I'll have to check when I get home. Thanks!

If I remember correctly, wasn't the DBDN membership only? I kind of remember something a couple of years ago where you paid an anual membership to access the DBDN? The codebase looks free from what I saw...So far...

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Tapewormz
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Posted: 13th May 2004 03:38
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PRINTC isn't a command set that's available in DarkBASIC Pro. I guess it's just a classic command set. I ended up making a tiny function to do this for me. Thanks though.

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Posted: 13th May 2004 15:01
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wordwrap command wouldn't be too hard.

Here's a little demo I did in a few minutes. If you don't want the word to get chopped up, then you'll have to parse the string and look for spaces, commas, etc... Which could be done with my string tokenizer, found in the codebase.


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Tapewormz
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Posted: 14th May 2004 01:10
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Yeah, that's pretty much what I had. Except that mine won't cut text off in the middle of a word. It recurses the string looking for a space and then splits the string at the first space left of the column length.

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OSX Using Happy Dude
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Posted: 14th May 2004 10:26
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You also need to check for the complete width (in pixels) of a line, plus the height (due to some fonts being variable width).


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Steverino X
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Posted: 14th May 2004 20:27
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Get my word wrap code here:
http://www.stevetiffany.com/darkbasic.html
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Tapewormz
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2004 08:10
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Thanks, I'll be sure to check it out when I get home. LOL...3 Months later.

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Posted: 3rd Aug 2004 01:05
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I will get home soon and i will post my word wrap function that creates an image box with the text wrapped in it.

there is a version in codesnips but it must be old... Give me an hour and i will upload a new one.

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