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How to make self-writing dialogue?
Started by marcelopotty0 Nov 25 2018 09:31 PM

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Best Answer XeduR @Spyric , 26 November 2018 - 12:57 AM

You just need to make a slight adjustment. I would also recommend that you assign custom anchorX and Y to the text so that it functions like in those other games you mentioned.

s = [[this is a multiline
texto en lua]]

local tam = string.len(s)

local cantidad  = 0

local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100)
displayed.anchorX = 0
displayed.anchorY = 0

timer.performWithDelay(50, function()
	cantidad = cantidad+1
	displayed.text = s:sub(1,cantidad)
end, tam)

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25 November 2018 - 09:31 PM

I want the text to show in self-writing, like in Pokemon, Undertale, or any other game, but I have no idea of how to use the string functions to make it.

example:

texto = "hello"

"h"

"he"

"hel"

"hell"

"hello"

how can I do it?

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25 November 2018 - 10:25 PM

s = [[this is a multiline

texto en lua]]

local tam = string.len(s)

local cantidad = 0

local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100)

--string.reverse(s)

timer.performWithDelay(50, function() cantidad = cantidad+1

displayed.text = s:sub(tam-cantidad, tam)

end, tam)

--I tried this but the text is written from end to start, and not viceversa

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26 November 2018 - 12:57 AM

Best Answer

You just need to make a slight adjustment. I would also recommend that you assign custom anchorX and Y to the text so that it functions like in those other games you mentioned.

s = [[this is a multiline
texto en lua]]

local tam = string.len(s)

local cantidad  = 0

local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100)
displayed.anchorX = 0
displayed.anchorY = 0

timer.performWithDelay(50, function()
	cantidad = cantidad+1
	displayed.text = s:sub(1,cantidad)
end, tam)

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26 November 2018 - 01:33 PM

Thank you so much!!!

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