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GuiMlTextControl New Line isn't quite working...

by Orion the Hunter · in Torque Game Builder · 12/08/2012 (10:53 am) · 8 replies

Okay, so I made this function so if a level isn't loaded you are taken back to the menu and a message pops up explaining the situation:

$AYSText = "It appears that there is no data to read yet." NL "Please make a save before attempting to load." NL "I can\'t just materilize files out" NL "of thin air, you know.";

The text CTRL is this:

new GuiTextCtrl(AYSText) {
         canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
         isContainer = "0";
         Profile = "GuiMLTextProfile";
         HorizSizing = "center";
         VertSizing = "center";
         Variable = "$AYSText";
         Position = "16 40";
         Extent = "440 144";
         MinExtent = "8 2";
         canSave = "1";
         Visible = "1";
         hovertime = "1000";
         maxLength = "1024";

The problem is I can't make it do new lines as indicated with the "NL" marks... I've looked all over the forums but I can't find a solution.

Thanks, guys! :)
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Torque Owner Kevin James
#1
12/08/2012 (1:05 pm)
You can try the following, but it seems like an issue with what you can do with that GUI control more than the correct syntax of newlines.

$AYSText = "It appears that there is no data to read yet.\nPlease make a save before attempting to load.\nI can\'t just materilize files out\nof thin air, you know.";

Or maybe even Windows-style newlines...
$AYSText = "It appears that there is no data to read yet.\r\nPlease make a save before attempting to load.\r\nI can\'t just materilize files out\r\nof thin air, you know.";

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#2
12/08/2012 (3:27 pm)
The control you linked isn't a GuiMLTextCtrl.

Additionally, "ML" doesn't stand for "multi-line," it stands for "Markup Language."

Finally, to get a new line, use <br>.
$AYSText = "It appears that there is no data to read yet.<br>Please make a save before attempting to load.<br>I can\'t just materialize files out<br>of thin air, you know.";

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#3
12/09/2012 (8:42 am)
Well actually I use NL (New Line). Your BR method worked. :)

Torque Owner Kevin James
#4
12/09/2012 (8:53 am)
Can you do other html tags in gui text?

Torque Owner Alpha-Kand
Hunter's Meadow
#5
12/09/2012 (10:03 am)
guiMLTextCtrl.cc
"stripControlChars" function lists a bunch of tags it can take out.

This also lists a bunch tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/GUI/Profiles/ControlList#GuiMLTextCtrl

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#6
12/09/2012 (10:43 am)
I was referring to the "ML" in the control class name - in script NL works for concatenating strings with a \n character, but only some controls display this correctly.

You can actually insert hyperlinks and other nifty things like color tagging into the MLText controls, but the MLtext controls expect the mark-up versions for NL and TAB. In T3D the tooltip in the GUI editor is misleading in that it says "multi-line text" - and that's what most people generally use it for. The other cool features are usually overlooked.

Torque Owner Richard Ranft
Roostertail Games
#7
12/09/2012 (10:50 am)
But I think what I'm really getting at is that this:
new GuiTextCtrl(AYSText) {
should be this:
new GuiMLTextCtrl(AYSText) {
And then all of the awesome markup features and the default multi-line display features will be available.

Another note - MLText controls auto-size vertically by default, so if you have dynamic text that can be displayed and there is a possibility that the control could grow to a length that would not display properly you should put it inside of a scroll control and set the scrollbars to dynamic. That way, if your text is too long a vertical scrollbar will appear to allow your users to scroll through your text.

Orion the Hunter
Fritterflames
#8
12/10/2012 (11:11 am)
^That's what I did. :) I found out about that method, too. Thanks.