Displaying a text box during dialogs

[GoToHellDave]

Hi AGS Community.

I have a quick question regarding text boxes.

Basically, we're trying to have a custom text box that is a kind of speech bubble, in which all dialog text will be displayed. I know there are four settings for dialog; LucasArts, SierreTransparent, SierraWIthBackground and WholeScreen. We want to use the LucasArts setting but we would like it to have a text box around it, much in the same way the 'Display' function does. Is there any way I can customise how the dialog is displayed and make it appear appear within a text box?

Help is appreciated as always.

Ben.

[Khris]

No, if you want to customize speech, you have to use your own function, which also means you can't use standard dialog speech any longer and you have to find a workaround to use voice speech.
To make things a bit easier, you can use an extender function:

Code: ags

function MySay(this Character*, String text) {
  // default behaviour for now
  this.Say(text);
}

  // use it like this in scripts and dialog scripts
  cEgo.MySay("Hello");

I guess you could try to figure out the dimensions of the text generated by .Say and show the box using an Overlay before the .Say line, then remove it afterwards.

[GoToHellDave]

Thanks Khris.