Author Topic: Best way to draw a lot of text (Read 6494 times)

dabo · « **on:** October 04, 2007, 10:41:18 am »

Hi, I hope this is the right place to put this...

I'm thinking of starting a manager game project (a lite version of Football Manager, Eastside Hockey Manager etc.). Those kind of games show a lot of info on the screen at the same time, how would you do it? It feels like I'm gonna need a million

instances of the String class.

For example when you show the roster, for each player I would need to show name, birthdate and year, length, weight, morale, all his atributes(shooting, skating, passing etc.) the list goes on.

All thoughts are welcome.

Srejv · « **Reply #1 on:** October 05, 2007, 12:02:02 am »

Personally I use just one instance of the String thing, using SetText for the textchange. But it probably would be wise to use a few different string instances if you plan to use more than one type of font. :>

dabo · « **Reply #2 on:** October 05, 2007, 12:25:37 pm »

Quote from: "Srejv"

Personally I use just one instance of the String thing, using SetText for the textchange. But it probably would be wise to use a few different string instances if you plan to use more than one type of font. :>

How do I achieve that? using only one string instance to draw all the text?

dabo · « **Reply #3 on:** October 07, 2007, 11:59:10 am »

I got it working now, thanks for the tips.