RPG Style Typewriter dialogs?

[chrilley]

Hay guys,

I've got a dialog system for my game I'm working on, but there's one tiny issue with the dialogs.

I use stringparser to get (Value A) number of letters of an hidden string. Value A keeps adding so it types out it letter by letter, which is cool. But when the message is reaching the end of the line and isn't yet done printing the word it places it on the row below and completes it. Like:

"Hi dude, I'm not from this vill"

"Hi dude, I'm not from this
village. But I eat a lot of panc"

"Hi dude, I'm not from this
village. But I eat a lot of
pancakes anyway."

Get it? Is there a way to make the dialog-system notice that the next word must be placed on the next line right away, before trying to fit it in the current line?

[Nick]

You will have to use a font which has evenly spaced letters, then scan the lenth of each word. If the word is longer than there are characters left on that line, instead a new line.

In MMF2 thats: newline$

[RayMarble]

In case you have a very simple and controlled situation maybe hard formatting the text (hitting Enter after a certain amount of characters) is the easiest thing to do. It's a bit simple but works

[pinacoladaxb]

You'd make a custom font and make sure that each letter is the same width. Then use Text Blitter to import the font and, like Nick said, check the total number of letters that fit on a line and subtract the current value of letters from that total and see if the remaining spaces are smaller than the next word. If so, make it go to the next line.