sf::Text for continuous text

[lexected]

Hello!

I'd like to ask whether it's possible to display continuous text using sf::Text. I thought I could somehow set the size of a line and then set the text happily, but I haven't found anything saying that it could be done that way...

Does anybody have experience with handling such thing? Is it possible?

[Laurent]

Maybe it's just me, but I have no idea what you mean with "continuous text" or "set the size of a line".

[lexected]

Sorry.

By continuous text I mean text that goes through several lines constrained by the size of a container it is in. For example, this text is going to get to the second line, because its length exceeded the size limit.

On my screen there's a line break after "this" in the previous sentence, and I didn't put it there - it must have been inserted automatically.

Is there a way to achieve something similar in SFML?

[Laurent]

You're not the first one to ask, so you may already find useful posts on this forum about this subject.

Otherwise, short answer: compute the position of every character (text.findCharacterPos) and insert a line break when the position exceeds the width of the container.

[lexected]

Thank you!
It works, although it looks little tricky.