Multiple colours in a string

Is it possible to display certain words in a string a different colour than the rest? I am hopign that its possible with the string parser and rich edit object, but I cant get it working...
For example, this string "today I ate an ^3apple" would display the word apple in green text.

The idea is that the ^ symbol followed by a number would be a delimeter which would signal a change in colour. In this example ^3 is green text

Does anyone have an example they can make, I cant seem to make any sense of it :(

I'll make an example later if you don't understand, but what you would have to do is search for ^, then look for the number, then find the space after the word. Then you can select the word and highlight it.

I dont think that is possible with the String Object. You could use the Rich Edit Box or multiple String Objects.

Stephen1980

The formatted text object should be optimal, although I have never used it myself.

I just did a quick test from Looki's suggestion, and the Formatted Text Object works easily for what you need. :)

Stephen1980

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Originally Posted by Stephen1980

I dont think that is possible with the String Object.

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Originally Posted by bigredron

I am hopign that its possible with the string parser and rich edit object, but I cant get it working...

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The Formatted text object will do this easily but is not supported by the Flash exporter.
STeve

This isn;t for flash. Can someone make an example please? I was playing with it yesterday and couldn't even get the Formatted Text Object to display anything...

I got it! :D And it's easy to add your own colors to it, too! Just add a new Alterable Value to it named nything, and change event 6 where it says "<= 2" to "<= #" where # is the number of colors you have. I'll have to edit it some if you want to have more than ten (0-9) colors, though.
http://www.LB-Stuff.com/MMF2/Colorizer.png

Get it here at the File Archive. :D

Thanks I will check it out. Im doing some stuff with LUA with this, so hopefully it should get me on my way thanks.

Now I got another question, is it possible to make the background of the Rich Edit object transparent? I want to be able to place the text over an semi-transparent image, and I can only select a solid colour background in the options.

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Originally Posted by bigredron

is it possible to make the background of the Rich Edit object transparent?

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Sorry, no. :(

It is possible, but you would have to use a subapp, along with the Kernel or Window Transparency Object to make it partially tranparent. :)

Stephen1980

Stephen that wouldn't work, he wants the background color transparent like with the edit box and multiline.

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I want to be able to place the text over an semi-transparent image

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This is what I meant was possible.

Stephen1980

OK thanks stephen I will take a look. Its not too important, im working on a dialogue engine, like RPG text boxes and it looks better semi-transparent but its not a biggie if it doesnt work

In Gwerdy we thought of a way: Take the RTF text from the REO and put it into a Rich Text object. That ALWAYS has a transparent background. :)

LB - Would that keep the colours carried over from the parsing? Ill give it a shot thanks. Need to download qwerdy again :)

EDIT: Hmm there is a rich text object? Where can I download that?

It comes with MMF2 and TGF2, it's a default object.

I dont have it... Alll I can see is Rich Edit Object. Are you sure its not a dev only extension? I am using MMF standard

Click the "Text" option in the list to the left with the object types. It should be the first object there, "Formatted Text". And it can't be a dev only extension because I used it alot back when all I had was TGF2! :)

oh, i know about that object, it doesnt work. I cant get any text to appear what so ever. I was looking for an object called 'Rich Text Object' cause thats what you called it

What!? It works perfectly fine. Check this example:
http://www.LB-Stuff.com/MMF2/RTF_Text.mfa
You can change the "Every 1 second" condition to whenever you want to update the text. ;)

Load string doesn't work, and I dont want to load from an external file. Thanks anyway.

Well then request that clickteam fixes it.

Load string DOES work, just not if you do it wrong.

Load string = "test" displays nothing for me.
It doesnt work if I load any type of string wether I type it in, load from a string object or RTF object

That's because you have to do a selection before it to tell it where to insert to. Try doing "Select all" before it.

I admit there is no way to clear it without loading a blank file, but if you want a transparent backgroun it's the only way. Also it can be easy to do it wrong. :(

I wish this object were updated.