as you said, i want the text to scroll off the window and not be displayed anymore. I want to be able to scroll a text both horizontally and/or vertically and limit the text display to a given area.

Ive (sort of) found a way to do it copying the string to a temp text and clipping the string using str_clip/str_trunc, then displaying the temp text instead of the real text. it *almost* works - but its kinda painful and clunky.

How would i render text to panel with render_target? I looked up render_target in the manual and it gives me a bunch of shader code - shaders just plain make my brain hurt. I dont understand the concept - let alone the code.