More Than One Line [SOLVED]

[Atelier]

I'm using a list box to display the responses for my game:



As you can see it has no problem displaying smaller snippets of text (top), but when it comes to longer descriptions it carries on and on. Is there a simple way to get the text to carry onto a second or even third line? I preferably wanted all the text to still be in the same slot (without having to portion it up), but I'd be really grateful for any other suggestions.

Thanks,
AtelierGames

[Calin Leafshade]

can you use the new line escape character with list boxes?

i think the new line character for ags is the backslash.. try sticking that in.

[Atelier]

The new line operator is [, but unfortunately no, it doesn't work with a list box.

[Calin Leafshade]

then you have alot of scripting ahead of you :p

essentially you need to use that font width function that tells you how long a stream of text is in pixels to split it up.

[Atelier]

I bring great news! I just found this great code by monkey, and with tweaking, it does exactly the job I wanted!



Unfortunately it has the undesirable side-effect of not associating the response with the input. :- But not something that is impossible to fix. I said it wasn't. Thanks monkey for the code!