a Rich Text library for LÖVE

[luminosity]

Just played around with the distortion problems. If I put a solid black background behind the text it looks much better than with the semi transparent one -- in fact it looks much like my other tooltips that use frambuffers. Looking closely at the text it all looks a little distorted if it's in a framebuffer. Wondering now if this is a problem with framebuffers in love, or something with my ATI card possibly (HD5850 fwiw).

[Jasoco]

So, where's the current stable version of this and how do I use it again? What's the syntax? Also, does it work with image fonts?

[Robin]

Thanks, luminosity, I hope I get around to incorporate your changes this week.

So, where's the current stable version of this

http://github.com/gvx/richtext, but I would wait until the bugs are fixed before downloading it.

and how do I use it again? What's the syntax?

See https://github.com/gvx/richtext#readme (under the header "usage").

Also, does it work with image fonts?

I have no idea. Probably? I never tried.

[bartbes]

Wondering now if this is a problem with framebuffers in love, or something with my ATI card possibly (HD5850 fwiw).

Perhaps fonts in framebuffers have some problems atm, I've heard this complaint more often. Let's hope 0.8.0's new font engine changes this.

[Robin]

Let's hope 0.8.0's new font engine changes this.

I also hope 0.8.0's new font engine doesn't break the things that do work in Rich Text.

[Jasoco]

Thanks, luminosity, I hope I get around to incorporate your changes this week.

So, where's the current stable version of this

http://github.com/gvx/richtext, but I would wait until the bugs are fixed before downloading it.

and how do I use it again? What's the syntax?

See https://github.com/gvx/richtext#readme (under the header "usage").

Also, does it work with image fonts?

I have no idea. Probably? I never tried.

That's why I want to try it. So I can let you know if it works with them. Maybe get it to work with them if it doesn't already.

Edit: Good news, everyone! It does.

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Kind of? Not sure why my three fonts are all misplaced. But I suspect it has something to do with each one having a different line height. But since in my games I would probably use one font for each line of text anyway, I guess it's not as big a deal.

Hmmm.. it also seems to screw up my own window resizing methods. If I resize the window, the FrameBuffer that the text uses (Not mine) gets all distorted. I bet it can be fixed if I recreate the RichText call after resizing.

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[Robin]

I made some fixes and other changes, unfortunately this crap keeps getting worse. I made a small change that should make luminosity's change work even after the last {tag}, but somehow it doesn't want to wrap at all anymore. It's all up on GitHub, if anyone wants to lend a an eyeball, please do so, because this is frustrating as hell.

[kikito]

I'd gladly lend a hand, but I don't understand what the issue is. Can you upload a sample file illustrating the problem?

[Robin]

Sure.

richtext.love

Example

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This should wrap after 200 pixels. It doesn't ever wrap. It has two newlines. If you remove those, there is some wrapping, but sometimes it's too late and other times it's too early.

If you could help my, that would be awesome.

[miko]

Sure.

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This should wrap after 200 pixels. It doesn't ever wrap. It has two newlines. If you remove those, there is some wrapping, but sometimes it's too late and other times it's too early.

If you could help my, that would be awesome.

This is what I see (attached). So does it work for me as expected?