Text on screen in Developer Help

ID:269039
 
Jan 30 2005, 6:48 pm
I've been looking for some libs with that would help me with this, but I was unable to find one. I want to be able to show text on screen like in Dragon Warrior Online so it shows stats. Hopefully, someone can supply me with one or help me develop one.
#1 Jan 30 2005, 6:50 pm
search Map Text and find Raekwons Text on Map lib
#2 Jan 31 2005, 12:17 pm
In response to Skye Reaver (#1)
Skye Reaver wrote:
search Map Text and find Raekwons Text on Map lib
Ewww...don't use that. It's poorly written...I WOULD release a demo on it, yet, the way I do it, it can be done much shorter and more efficient, so, meh. =/
#3 Jan 31 2005, 12:24 pm
In response to Hell Ramen (#2)
you could bug wizkidd0123 on it he has like a bunch of that done already.
#4 Jan 31 2005, 12:53 pm
You can do it yourself, really. Just loop through every character in a peice of text, create a new object, set it's icon_state to the letter (also set it's icon to a .dmi file with the alphabet in it(a-z)), then just add it to the screen with an x offset (if characters are small enough), and give it a y offset to place characters in different rows. Well, here's a basic way you can do it:

var
   TEXT="Hi, I'm Crashed"
   xoff
   xpos
for(var/i=0,i<lentext(TEXT),i++)
  if(xoff>=32)
    xoff-=32
    xpos++
  var/obj/C=new
  C.icon='Alphabet.dmi'
  C.icon_state=copytext(TEXT,i,i+1)
  C.screen_loc="[2+xpos]:[xoff],5"
  src.client.screen+=C
  xoff+=10 <-- this here really varies on the size of the characters.


This can be done a lot better, but it works (or so I think it does) and is a decent example on how it's done.
#5 Jan 31 2005, 12:58 pm
In response to Crashed (#4)
That is so long and inefficient. The next version of BYOND needs to have like a text_onscreen() verb or something.... I tried to make it so that all npc text appeared onscreen in a little box... @_@ HARD! I gave up and used pop-ups... =/
#6 Jan 31 2005, 12:59 pm
In response to Lorddonk (#5)
It's not very long, and yes it can be shortened (but for the example, I had to keep it long to make sense), but inefficient? Besides, how do you think a "text_onscreen()" would work? Pretty much the same way.
#7 Jan 31 2005, 1:23 pm
#8 Jan 31 2005, 3:41 pm
In response to Xooxer (#7)
#9 Feb 1 2005, 8:42 am
In response to XxDohxX (#8)
I prefer to go with what I know. I'm sure DMIFonts is all great, but I know how sd_text works and have used it many times to great effect. Besides, Lummox has enough publicity. ;P

~X