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Splodgey's Text Box v1.1
Ever wondered why there's no text box? Or why you can make sprites “say” stuff, but not display pure text? Click here!


Contents
How to Use
Features & Supported Characters
Changelog
Plans
News & Announcements

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How to Use

To use it, drag the “Text Box v1.0” sprite into your backpack, and unpack it wherever you want it.

To add text, add text to the “Text” list, and broadcast “New Text”.
If you wish to specify the coordinates, add the x coordinate to the “Text X” list, and the y coord to the “Text Y” list.
If you wish to specify colours & text size, add the colour value (a number) to the “Text Colour” list, the brightness value (-100 to 100) to the “Text Brightness” list, and the size (default is 10) to the “Text Size” list.

To delete text, set the “Delete ID” variable to the item in the text list you wish to delete, and broadcast “Delete Text”.

To modify text, replace the item in “Text” with whatever, and broadcast “Update Text”. This works with Text Y, Text Colour, Text Brightness and Text Size, but to modify the x coordinate, you must change the item in Text X Original.

If this didn't make sense, let me know… I don't know how well I explained it.

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Features & Supported Characters

• Modifiable Text Boxes
  
• Text Colours
  
• Text Size
  

Supported Characters
: ' - _ . ! ? , # @ = + ( ) ~ { } " $ % ^ & * ; | \ < > /

Approximate List of Colours

• 0 - Red
  
• 20 - Orange
  
• 30 - Yellow
  
• 50 - Green
  
• 130 - Blue
  
• 150 - Purple
  
• 170 - Pink
  
• 200 - Back to red
  

With brightness, all other colours are theoretically possible.

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Changelog
v1.2
+Added text wrapping
*Fixed spaces not increasing with text size

v1.1
+Added text Size
+Added text Colours
+Added the Characters: ~ { } " $ % ^ & * ; | \ < > /

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News & Announcements

16/09/2012 Moving to this thread.
14/09/2013 v1.2 released!
14/09/2013 News & Announcements section created.

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how do you make your textbox/description bigger?

I don't really know