Author Topic: Display only a part of a string (Read 4450 times)

dabo · « **on:** December 20, 2008, 03:00:02 pm »

Hi, is it possible to for example display only the first 200 pixels of a string of length say 250 pixels (or any length > 200

?

dabo · « **Reply #1 on:** December 20, 2008, 06:32:34 pm »

ok thanks. I would have needed to be able to display parts of letters. I guess I can fool the eyes though.

irri · « **Reply #2 on:** December 20, 2008, 08:02:03 pm »

Hi!
What if you want to have a dialogue box where the text appears letter by letter, or fade in.
Which is the best way to accomplish that?

dabo · « **Reply #3 on:** January 07, 2009, 07:35:58 pm »

Is there no hack that can be done? For example convert the rendered text to an image? so that the sprite method SetSubRect() can be used later.

coral · « **Reply #4 on:** January 07, 2009, 08:17:55 pm »

You can of course make a lot of ugly hacks to solve this problem.

One simple i can think of, not very general but at least a cheap solution is to draw a color in a PNG (or fileformat with support for alpha channel) and make a gradient with Your color to transparent, then just move this over the text corresponding to what you want to fade in.

WOILA INSTANT FADE!

dabo · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2009, 10:22:08 pm »

I don't quite understand what you mean.