Turn multiline text into a costume

[cymplecy]

This is an extension of the costume from text library reporter

to allow creation of lines of text

It also comes with a helper C-block that will re-centre the costume into it's original position

ProjectName=CostumeFromMultilineText

[silver_star]

Cool!

[dardoro]

You can set pen color to get a colorful text. So the next step can be dialog box as described by bh

Text boxes

Well, the main thing is that they'll be readable and writeable both by the user interactively and by the program. I'd like the program to see the text as just text, not cluttered with html or whatever, even if there's html in the implementation. I see a need for two kinds of interaction. One is the text editor style, in which there's a body of text that you jump around and add to throughout the document. The other is the conversation style, in which new text is added at the end, and the stu…

I made something similar but rendered as HTML with basic cursor navigation : ...snap.html#present:Username=dardoro&ProjectName=TextBox

[cymplecy]

I finally realised how to get the new costume to set it's pivot point to it's centre by changing this block

This removes the need for the extra re-centre wrapper

(Note -I've only modified my own multiline reporter - I've left the original library block alone)

ProjectName=CostumeFromMultilineText2

[loucheman]

Nice !

I remix it to add justification (left, right, center)

(you already made left justification)

[cymplecy]

Excellent addition

Made a slight mod to move the combine outside of the inner loops

ProjectName=CostumeFromMultilineTextWithJustification2

[cymplecy]

I just notificed your change x line and I've applied similar logic to do the justifies without looping and adding spaces

CostumeFromMultilineTextWithJustification3

[edit - changed to using 39.58/72 to improve accuracy)

[loucheman]

I like your optimisation.

good job.

i found 7/12 here:

@helicoptur

I had to figure this out myself in my write with wrapping block, the calculation is:

to calculate the width the text is going to take up in pixels.
A character written onscreen with size 12 takes up 7 pixels.

40/72 is more accurate ?

[cymplecy]

Each costume from letter height and width varies depending on the individual letter

But when I played around a lot (doing other stuff) I settled on the this ratio of size as being width of a space char

If you look closely on right justify - I think it it off by one pixel (comparing the o of Hello to the o of to) but what is one pixel between friends

[dardoro]

Write block uses monospace font so, for every letter

[cymplecy]

Doing that with size 72 gives 39.58 so I was quite close with my 40 estimate

[cymplecy]

Changing it to 39.58 removes the off-by-one issue

[helicoptur]

Yes, but this is only for monospace fonts.