Hello there,
Recently, I’ve been messing some gui and stuff, including rich text, to make a dialogue. But there was a problem, you can’t render with rich text in a classic way. Because of that, I decided to write a Module to fix this problem. When I look back at what I’ve done, I thought that there was a problem to everyone too, so I shared this module.
introduction
“Rich Text Dialogue” is a module, allows to render text with Roblox’s rich text feature without leaking tags.
Benefits:
- Different time for different position.
- Work with multi tags in one string.
- Supported specific character.
https://www.roblox.com/library/5864633993/Rich-Text-Dialogue
How to use
You only need to require a module and call a function:
local Module = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.RichTextDialogue)
Module.Render(Object,"String",Time,IsContinue)
--[[
- Object: TextLabel, TextBox, TextButton
- Time: + Time.
+ {
[Position1] = Time1,
[Position2] = Time2
}
-IsContinue: true, false
]]--
Example:
local String = [[<b>Bold text</b> <i>Italic text</i> <u>Underline text</u> <s>Strikethrough text</s> <font color="rgb(255,0,0)">Red text</font> <font size="20">Bigger text</font> <font face="SciFi">SciFi text</font> & < > " ']]
Module:Render(script.Parent,String,0.1,false)
Different time
TimeTable = {
[0] = 0.1,
[5] = 1,
[7] = 0.1
}
Once it reaches a required position (0, 5, 7), it will render that character, then wait for a following time (0.1, 1,0.1). Note that you shouldn’t choose a position in tags, if you want to make it wait before bold or italic text, I recommend choosing position before tag.
Example:
local TimePos = {
[0] = 0.1,
[6] = 1,
[10] = 0.1 --1 6 10
} -- | | |
local String = "Hello <b>world</b>!"
Module.Render(script.Parent, String, TimePos)
The script above would render a Hello word, each character for 0.1 seconds, and there’s a 1 second waiting time because it rendered to Position 6, then it renders the next word, World!, it ignores the tag, so it wouldn’t wait for another 1 second.
If you have any suggestion, feedback or bug, please reply below, I’d be very appreciate about that.
Logs
Edit 2:
- Fixed bug prevented from rendering second string.
- Render time should now be normal when under load (lower framerate).
Edit 3:
- Supported
<br/>tag.
Edit 4 → 9:
- Supported
<smallcaps>and<sc>tag. - Supported
<uppercase>and<uc>tag. - Supported
<!-- -->tag. - Fixed bug that leaks text after closing tag.
Edit 10:
- Added new feature: Continue rendering; if true, it won’t delete text to render a new one.
- Fixed bug that leaks text when
<tag>and</tag>are next to each other.