Text Boxes?

Hello. I am in the process of making a game and it is quite narrative heavy. To display that up to this point I portrayed dialogue in computer pop-up windows however this obviously disallows the game to be ported over to other mediums. A lot of the default text objects I've found to be not very malleable and versatile enough to be text boxes. Seeing as how the dialogue is extremely integral, I was wondering If anyone knows a way to create in-game text boxes or point me towards a tutorial for that? Or perhaps there is an object that does all of this? Thank you.

There's a dialogue tutorial on the Tutorials page (have a look on the sidebar on the right when viewing a forum list). I think that it'll either use the Speech Bubble object or the Text Blitter.

What format is your game going to be for?

I was thinking for Android and IProduct devices.

Also I found the Text Blitter object to be extremely useful. However. Is there anyway for the text to appear slowly on the screen? Like old-school RPGs?

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Originally Posted by Gimbabwe

Also I found the Text Blitter object to be extremely useful. However. Is there anyway for the text to appear slowly on the screen? Like old-school RPGs?

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You mean like a typewriter?

Marv

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_M17...eature=related

I wish for the text to appear in this fashion when the characters speak.

Make the string something like this.

Left$( "blah blah", Alterable Value A( "Text Blitter Object" ) )

Then add 1 to the value A of the text blitter as the text is displayed. Make sure each time a message is displayed the text blitter's value A is always set to 0 at the start of the message being displayed.

Also can someone explain to me how the handles in the Text Blitter object work?

As far as I know, the Text Blitter is not supported by the various exporters. Flash, IOS ect.

Here's a text blitting example I made that uses no extensions: http://www.whenthereisnoroominhellth...itversion2.mfa

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Originally Posted by ChrisBurrows

As far as I know, the Text Blitter is not supported by the various exporters. Flash, IOS ect.

Here's a text blitting example I made that uses no extensions: http://www.whenthereisnoroominhellth...itversion2.mfa

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link's not working! can you please upload it again?
it'd be very very helpful :)

Gimbabwe - To answer your original question you can use Active System Box to display your text.
Not sure if this is supported by Android Exporter, but it is for iOS Exporter. Make it multi-line, you can resize it as you want, change the font, font size, colour, etc. You can make the box background transparent if you don't want a box around it as well as controlling the left, right, top & bottom margins and left, centred or right aligned.

I copied the code that was written earlier and it works perfectly. I have it set so that every every .02 seconds it creates a new character and every .04 seconds it plays a text blitting sound effect. The problem is, I can't find a way to get that sound effect to stop when the text stops. Any ideas or suggestions?

I did something before where I'd end every text string with an asterisk, so to display the text it'd go through every letter and make the little sound as long as that text letter wasn't an asterisk.

I believe I used the mid$ function to check this. Like-

If Mid$(strSOURCETEXT, CurrentLetter,1) <> "*" then
-> make the sound
-> display the letter


Just a suggestion, maybe something like that would work for you too.