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Devcore35
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Posted: 13th Dec 2015 17:25
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Hello,

Do you know how to display text on multiple lines?
Here's the code I have:

PromptDuration ("Test. my text here on the first line. This sentence should be on a second line. ", 15000)

I would like the second sentence is displayed on one line below.

Thank you in advance for your assistance
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Posted: 13th Dec 2015 17:48
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it should be \n
PromptDuration("Test. my text here on the first line. \n This sentence should be on a second line. ",50000)
but you'll notice it just ignores the call completely
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Posted: 14th Dec 2015 10:54
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Yes special characters are stripped out as the Prompt is designed for a single line. For more complex overlaps, you might want to check out the new Sprite commands, which would allow you to display an image that contains multiple lines of text in a single draw call. If you felt particularly brave, you could write a system which displayed one sprite per letter and created your own text display system in LUA
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Posted: 14th Dec 2015 12:27
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Thank you very much
Unfortunately, in fact, it does not work for now

I'll try your other idea
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Posted: 14th Dec 2015 19:24
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You could just use Text(x,y,size,txt). That way you can have as many lines as you want.


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Posted: 15th Dec 2015 21:51
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Very thanks you DVader ! I will test it tomorrow morning.
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Posted: 16th Dec 2015 02:52
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No problem, I'm sure you will have several lines of text at your disposal without any hard work at all I'm surprised that Lee suggested sprites, which would be a far harder fix in all honesty. I have done what he suggests in the past, but only because there was no easy way to change my font besides using sprites But for simple in game messages text is more than suitable.


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