Create a Game Event Log

[PawneeFork]

I'm having trouble getting a "carriage return" using Rich Edit Object. Can someone help me with this?

Here's what I have:


The intent is for game message strings to be retrieved from a CSV file array and then have them displayed (when triggered) in the Rich Edit Object using a counter-controlled line number.

This is what I get. As you can see, the counter shows 3 messages posted, but the messages are listed horizontally:



But this is how I wanted it to look:



What am I doing wrong?

Thanks!

[LB]

Add +NewLine$ to the end of the Set text action.

[PawneeFork]

Works like a champ. Thank-you LB.

[PawneeFork]

I added +NewLine$ to the end of the Set text action and here is what it looks like:



How do I eliminate the blank lines between the text (indicated in blue)?

Thanks.

[LB]

Remove the +NewLine$

Guess you changed something and it already has new lines now where it didn't before. Either that or you're getting spaces as elements.

[Stephen]

Change your line event to: Go to line whatever + 1

[PawneeFork]

Thanks LB and Stephen. It works!

The "blank lines" were being introduced by the RTF file. I changed the line-spacing settings of the RTF Word document to zeroes/single-spaced and that fixed it.

Thanks again for your assistance.

[PawneeFork]

Here's a workable, cleaned up version of the game event log for others to use:



I used MagicDeque to load a CSV file that contains the strings of game events I want to keep track of. When an event is triggered in the game (pressing the space bar in this example), the appropriate string element from the CSV array is retrieved and displayed in the Rich Edit Object. The +NewLine$ gives you the carriage return required to stack messages in the event log vertically (Thx LB).

NOTE: Rich Edit Object allows you to use either a .txt file or an .rft file. If you use an .rtf file, be sure the line-spacing for that file is set to single spacing.