Hi,

is it possible to use a linebreak in draw_text or do I have to split my string and use different draw_text-calls?

Regards,
Pegamode.

Line break for the draw_text command is
"\n"
Lower case N and carefully note the direction of the slash...

EG draw_text("First Line\nSecond Line",xxx,xxx) will display as
"First Line"
"Second Line"

Look up the formatting rules for PRINTF command and they should be the same for text manipulation.

Hmmm ...

this was the first thing I tried, but the \n was displayed and not converted into a linebreak.

Maybe the problem is that I read the string from a file ... I'll check that out again.

I checked it out ...

draw_text("First Line\nSecond Line",xxx,xxx) is doing fine.

But if I read the string that should be displayed from a file the \n is not converted into a linebreak ...

Any ideas?

maybe try \r\n, just a guess.

interesting..

Is there a way to do this:

str("##############################")

now split the text after a count set by a variable (f.e. 10 signs) and add the "\n" between the 10 signs, the 20 signs, the 30 signs...etc...?

That´ll make scrollable text much easier ^^.

Splitting the string and adding "\n" should be easy ... but I'd like to avoid using many string operations as they are slow.

I prefer the direct way using "\n", but I don't know why it's not converted when reading the string from a file yet.

I'll try "\r\n" later on ... I hope that this doesn't cause into a linebreak in my textfile :-)

Also try "\\n" rather than "\n" in the FILE.
I think it may be losing the first "\" during the read process.
I havent tested thisd though.

I think that is more exactly what happens ... I think my \n is escaped to \\n during the read process so that as a result \n is displayed instead of being converted into a linebreak.

But I'll check it out later.

Both "\r\n" and "\\n" are not working ...

I guess that the "\" is escaped to "\\" ...

Any more ideas ???