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

[Robotica]

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?

http://www.castles-of-britain.com/mmfexamples-s.htm

[Gustav]

@ Robotica

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

[Outcast]

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.

This looks like a really good start! Still centering, or left to right and being able to fit text into different sized "bubbles" is really what I have trouble with!

[BartekB]

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

string_widget_2.mfa
Blitting text seems extremely fast and apps seem to get little to no slowdown (And that's 22 events as well)

Hope this helps!

[schrodinger]

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.

[Outcast]

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

string_widget_2.mfa
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 nice! I noticed some strange things though, for example when I set the Xmax to 340 for example I get

"Arr! It has set t
he sails!"

[BartekB]

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

[Gustav]

A very nice example can be found here: Example: Text blitting with only the active object

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.

[BartekB]

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

[Robotica]

@ Robotica

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

I guess not. Sorry.