printf: number of line wraps

[McMalloc]

Hai people!

I try to imitate those oldschool scrolling dialogue windows (with the glyphs appearing one after another quickly). I only want two lines of text being visible at once, after that an user input is necessary to continue to the next two lines.

I use printf for line wrapping. How can I stop outputting the string after one line feed?

Many thanks in advance!
Robert

[Ubermann]

Hai people!

I try to imitate those oldschool scrolling dialogue windows (with the glyphs appearing one after another quickly). I only want two lines of text being visible at once, after that an user input is necessary to continue to the next two lines.

I use printf for line wrapping. How can I stop outputting the string after one line feed?

Many thanks in advance!
Robert

I would suggest you to use love functions for printing text.

As for your question, you will need to play with string.sub, string.len and probably with font:getWidth() and also having some variable where you save the maximum number of characters per line and the maximun width of the line. And maybe with love.timer.sleep() too.

[McMalloc]

I would suggest you to use love functions for printing text.

As for your question, you will need to play with string.sub, string.len and probably with font:getWidth() and also having some variable where you save the maximum number of characters per line and the maximun width of the line. And maybe with love.timer.sleep() too.

I forgot to state that I indeed use love.graphics.printf() to display text with line wrapping

Font.getWidth() seems to look useful for this purpose, thank you! But why would I need sleep()? I don't want the dialogue display to freeze the whole program...

Regards,
Robert