BillboardGUI and Text scale

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#1

so what im trying to do is as text is entered into the text label (text label parent is BillboardGUI) i would want the size to adjust to the text length/size (x axis)

any help would be appreciated

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#2

You’re gonna need to provide more info like how they’re entering the text. Is it via a TextBox?

was gonna yap a lot but I found a post

#3

already tried that but since im using a billboard gui it doesnt have that property

#4

oh okay but how are you accepting text input

#5

so its a chat command you would say “/me” and put whatever at the end and it would show on the textlabel

#6

oh that’s uh kinda simple

So you’d obviously set the text in the textlabel right. And then you’d get the scale for both X and Y dimensions of the text label

then you’d set it like so

local BillboardGui = your.gui
local TextLabel = your.label
-- set the text
BillboardGui.Size = UDim2.new(TextLabel.X.Scale, 0, TextLabel.Y.Scale, 0)

I’m not gonna write the whole thing out since I’m sure you’ve got something already written. This is just a layout for you

#7

yes but is there anyway so if text is entered, the text label would get longer (x axis)?

#8

It should. Give it a try I guess

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#9

u just wrote a code that reads the textlabel size not the actual string length if u know what i mean

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#10

Wait that wouldn’t be accurate? I dont think it would work if you used the character length unless you did some formula

#11

im looking for somthing like this just in a billboard gui

#12

I guess you could use TextService:GetTextBounds() when the text is updated and you could update the X dimension of the Billboard accordingly if I understood you right

#13

could you write a simple ccode so i can understand abit better?

also TextService:GetTextBounds() returns as a vector2 not udim

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#14

Yeah but it’s easy to convert

UDim2.new(Vector.X, 0, Vector.Y, 0)
#15

sorry to be a pain but could u write a code example?

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#16

Yeah sure

local TextService = game:GetService("TextService")
local BillboardGui = path
local TextLabel = path
-- player added event above
Player.Chatted:Connect(function(msg)
   if msg == "/me" then
      local Text = string.sub(msg, 4, msg.length)
      local Bounds = TextService:GetTextBounds(Text)
      TextBox.Text = Text
      TextBox.Size = UDim2.new(Bounds.X, 0, Bounds.Y, 0)
   end
end)

something like that. You can also use math.clamp to make sure the TextLabel size doesn’t go outside bounds

#17

:GetTextBounds is not a command of the text service

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#18

My bad it’s actually TextService:GetTextBoundsAsync

And also that’s just some example code