Disable Richtext (SOLVED)

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#1

Hello,

I hope that everyone is doing well. Quick question… I am creating text using rich text by fading them in. When all the text is faded in, I want it to go get disabled or go away. How might I go about doing this?

Thanks,
V

#2

Is this what you’re looking for?

One of the very few things I’ve actually contributed myself! :laughing:

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#3

Thanks for that!

I think I may be using it wrong…

 local function remove(self)
	richtext.remove(words)
end

function on_message(self, message_id, message, sender)
	if message_id == hash("texttime") then
		print("text time")
		text(self)
		timer.delay(7, true, remove)
		timer.delay(8, true, text2)
	end
end

This segment returns:
/richtext/richtext.lua:645: assertion failed!

In local function text(self) words is called like:
local words = richtext.create("This is a text that should fade in character by character", "system_font", settings)

Thanks,
V

#4

Yes, you must actually specify which words to delete. Wouldn’t be a useful function if it indiscriminately removed all richtext everywhere!

I don’t see in your code snippet how your richtext is created. Anyway, one thing richtext.create() returns is a table called “words”. You have to store that table when you create the richtext, and then later provide it to richtext.remove().

#5

Sorry, how would I go about storing this table?

#6 
self.words = richtext.create(...)
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#7

Thank you!