Allow ML control chars in chat

#1 ML control chars? what is it your trying to accomplish?

#2 Make a custom chathud that is based around GuiMLTextCtrl. Then you could just make a function like this to add a chat line:

function GuiMLTextCtrl::addLine(%this, %line)
{
   if (%this.getValue() $= "")
      %this.setText(%line);
   else
      %this.setText(%this.getValue() NL %line);
}

#3 Yup - I can see how you could use this to implement a system similar to most modern mmo games - lets you "link" items or missions into chat....

#4 Thanks Jeff!

Also, is there a way to check if an object is inside/stuck in another object?

#5

%pos = %obj.getPosition();
%check = %obj2.getPosition();
if (vectorDist(%pos, %check) < 0.1)
{
   // within 0.1 units range.
}

or you could use the ContainerBoxEmpty function that checks bounding boxes, look that function up in the API

#6 Thanks again, Jeff! I can't seem to get containerBoxEmpty to work properly though... I'll try the other one.