Defold-RichText

britzl · February 5, 2022, 9:56pm

Thanks! Richtext will create a bunch of GUI nodes and just like any other GUI nodes these will get cleaned up when the component is unloaded.

bolloteam · April 18, 2022, 9:17pm

Hi @britzl i trying to creater in this box but is not visible, im trying even to put inside the screen box and its visible but always apears if i animate screen box rightexts is not moving, can you help? thank you…

britzl · April 19, 2022, 3:40am

I’m not sure I understand. What are you trying to do? Can you share some code please?

bolloteam · April 21, 2022, 2:57am

thank you for your answer, sorry i will try to clarify, if I create a richtext inside a box and I try to animate box to move the position (x or y), the richtext keeps static as if this create outside the box, by now i remove richtext but i will want to know if i can do that or i have to move the whole bunch of objects each time i want to…

britzl · April 21, 2022, 4:58am

How are you doing this? Are you specifying the box as a parent in the call to richtext.create ?

bolloteam · April 21, 2022, 10:40pm

Hi, yes i set the box as parent parameter, but if i move the box, richtext doesnt move with parent.

britzl · April 22, 2022, 3:46am

I see. Can you please create an issue in the RichText repository on GitHub? And please include a zip file with a project where this can be tested.

greay · July 7, 2023, 10:44pm

I have an issue where &zwsp; in my text shows up as ~. Is this an issue with my font? or is something else going on?

britzl · July 8, 2023, 7:11am

Yes, the zero width space is a character just like every other character in a font:

https://unicode-explorer.com/c/200B

You need to have it in your font, otherwise it will show as ~ like any other missing character.

greay · July 10, 2023, 7:05pm

Thank you! I was able to use FontForge to add the missing glyph, but it was a little tricky to verify. Since FontForge is pretty confusing to use as an absolute beginner, and macOS automatically switches to another font for missing glyphs. But it’s all working now!

mchlkpng · February 28, 2024, 3:57am

I had a little fun with richtext…

britzl · February 28, 2024, 4:35pm

Great use of RichText!

Steven_McDade · March 6, 2024, 11:08am

Hi, I’ve created a typewriter for my quiz game using the truncate example, but would there be an easy way for the letters to fade in rather than just appear?

britzl · March 6, 2024, 11:49am

One option might be to take the full text and take each word and split into characters (using richtext.characters()) and the fade in all characters using gui.animate with an increasingly large delay.

Steven_McDade · March 6, 2024, 11:52am

Thanks, will use this as a starting point.
Was also looking at the example and the cursor follows the last character, so that might work too.

playmedusa · April 4, 2024, 11:56am

Any clue why bold and italics float a bit above the baseline? It’s a well known font, PT Serif, and it doesn’t happen in text editors:

britzl · April 4, 2024, 1:37pm

The vertical position for the words are probably wrong:

github.com

britzl/defold-richtext/blob/master/richtext/richtext.lua#L483

    
      
          				table.insert(words, i + 1, two)
          				word_count = word_count + 1
          				overflow = false
          			end
          		end
          
          
		if overflow and not word.nobr then
          			-- overflow, position the words that fit on the line
          			text_metrics.height = text_metrics.height + (line_height * line_increment_before * settings.line_spacing)
          			position.x = settings.position.x
          			position.y = settings.position.y - text_metrics.height
          			position_words(line_words, line_width, line_height, position, settings)
          
          
			-- add the word that didn't fit to the next line instead
          			line_words[#line_words + 1] = word
          
          
			-- update text metrics
          			text_metrics.width = math.max(text_metrics.width, line_width)
          			text_metrics.height = text_metrics.height + (line_height * line_increment_after * settings.line_spacing) + paragraph_spacing
          			line_width = word_metrics.total_width
          			line_height = word_metrics.height

I probably need to take into consideration also the max_descent of the font.

WhiteBoxDev · April 4, 2024, 1:50pm

Can also use the Defold Typewriter extension as a reference if helpful: