(DEPRECATED) Easy Typewriter [OPEN-SOURCE]

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Easy typewriter is usable through just two lines of code and even considers RichText tags!

local TP = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.TextProcessor);
TP:Typewriter(TextLabel, "Test: <b>Lua</b> <i>Text <b>Processor</b></i>", { length = .15 });

Simply running this code with the text processor in position and TextLabel defined will do:


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If you have a special case you can always modify the code/adopt a simpler usage of the API:

TP:Make("<highlight>HEY!</highlight>");

With the “highlight” label defined as:

TP.Features = {
	["highlight"] = {"b", "font color='rgb(218,165,32)'"};
	--[[ Add more such as:
	[<tag>] = <replacementTags[]>;
	]]
};

Feel free to get the module on the Releases page.

(DEPRECATED) Superseded by utf8.graphemes.

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#2

Oh wow, this sounds really good, I’ll be sure to test it out!

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#3

WOW man this is so useful!
I have a quick question does this have a event for relating the text that’s in the textbox currently?.

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#4

I didn’t quite understand the question, could you rephrase that?

#5

is there an event that gets the text that’s in the textbox?

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#6

TextLabel.Text is a property that’s always available. The typewriter function runs asynchronously though so you can’t exactly get the text whilst it’s being written.

I am planning on expanding to a more scripter-friendly version instead of simply newbie-friendly in the future, where more features would definitely be present (Such as #Start, #Pause, #FastForward, #IncrementSpeed, and events such as #Started, #Completed), at which point you would be able to run synchronously and use of TextLabel.Text would get you the current text.

#7

gotcha thanks for the info i hope the best for the pack.

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#8

Very easy to implement into dialogue systems. Would recommend 100%

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#9

Hey! Just out of curiosity, some of the code looks similar to html. Is it somehow related?

#10

It’s roblox RichText!
And they put it as

Tags are similar to XML/HTML tags and require both an opening and closing tag around the formatted text.