I hate to do text in games. Is there any good widgets etc?

I always use Strings for text. It's easy to create and manipulate text with it.

I used Formatted Text when I was starting out, but that was a pain to use because Auto Vertical Scrollbar is enabled by default and it needed a background color that matched whatever was behind it. The latter makes it look bad over anything that isn't a solid color. The guide specifically says the String object's "purpose is not to display complex strings or text: use the Formatted Text or the Rich Edit text objects instead.", which is why I used Formatted Text at first. I don't really see why, though.

By the way, if you're going to have a bunch of separate Strings in one frame that all have the same font/size/color, it's easier to clone the objects instead of setting up the formatting all over again.

A good place to start/build from is the various text blitting tutorials/guides found here - Please login to see this link.

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But strings is problem since you need to have the font used installed on the machine to display the correct font?

You can use font embeed extension to pack the font in the app.

I'm actually really interested in this, I'll have a go at making a widget or something like that

I recall having some problems with font embed extension.
Worked on some machines but not on others...

Having something solid for font embedding would be really, really useful.

So I was messing about with this for quite a long time and reached this state:
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You can have your own fonts, pretty easy to use, has line breaks and you can angle and scale your text.

The only thing that this is missing is text alignment and some other stuff
To make the Character Sheet, simply place the Character Image Object, click generate from font and save all the frames inside it.
Then load all the frames in a new animation inside the TypeFont Active.
(Don't actually use it though, it corrupted my .mfa for some reason. So when you generate your font, remove the object)

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Scroll down on this link to "RPG Text Widget":

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The two examples at the bottom of this link are super good... reason being because it works with only two events!! (I have no idea how since i'm new to fusion... lol... but both of these two examples are each just 2 events in length VS dozens of events I've seen in other examples... pretty gnarly...) Any seasoned pro clicker want to educate us on this and explain it further for us noobies?

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@ Robotica

You didn't really understand the request behind this thread?

Okay so, I made an upgrade including Horizontal Text Alignment and "X Max" (When certain pixels have been reached, makes a new line)
Vertical Text Alignment would also be a good thing to make in this

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Blitting text seems extremely fast and apps seem to get little to no slowdown (And that's 22 events as well)

Hope this helps!

Very cool, BartekB!

I will keep it at hand for future reference

@ Robotica: those examples are indeed smart and cool, but they use the "string object" which is bounded to the system fonts,
unfortunately this gives problems if the end-user doesn't have your font installed on his own machine.
Latest example by BartekB is instead a real "text blitter" application, which "prints" fonts on the screen from starting images loaded in the application itself, thus giving no compatibility issues.

At the moment, this blitter doesn't really "care" for blitting words together, so someday I'll have to remake it so it only makes line breaks at spaces and such

A very nice example can be found here: Please login to see this link.

But now I see Outcast already answered on this topic. But why not build on this?

@ Robotica

I don't wanted to be rude. It's just here a text blitter is asked for (without String object) and no typewriter.

That's a cool example
I might see how this one works and improve mine (I see the word wrapping is decent)

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@ Robotica

You didn't really understand the request behind this thread?

I guess not. Sorry.