Find word in string, then colour it

[GibusWielder (Kwick)]

I am making a custom developer console (since the F9 one doesn’t look cool enough >:(((), and I wanna make the input text be coloured. So if you typed warn, it would be orange. Or, if you typed error, it would be red.

I have… absolutely no idea how to do this. The only thing I know how to do is coloured rich text. Any ideas?

[nicemike40]

One way is to make the input box itself actually invisible, and render the typed text (plus replacements for highlighting) on top with a text label:

Syntaxhighlighting in textbox?

Yeah. For instance, I made a textbox and a textlabel (with RichText enabled): [image] And then put a pattern for “local” or “function” followed by a variable name, which adds tags: local syntaxPatterns = { ["(local%s+)([a-zA-Z0-9]+)"] = '<font color="rgb(0,0,255)">%1</font><b><i>%2</i></b>', ["(function%s+)([a-zA-Z0-9]+)"] = '<font color="rgb(255,0,0)">%1</font><u>%2</u>', } local function HighlightSyntax(source) for pattern, repl in pairs(syntaxPatterns) do source = string.gsub(source, …

[calvin_coco (where)]

Sorry if this didn’t work, i’m on mobile right now

local highlighted = {
   testword = Color3.fromRGB(255,100,0)
}

local text = script.Parent.Text -- LocalScript under the TextLabel
local newtext = ""

for _, word in text:split(" ") do -- Split the words, then iterate over them
   local iscolored = false

   for i, color in highlighted do
      if word == tostrin(i) then -- Check if word needs to be highlighted
         newtext ..= '<font color="rgb("' .. color.R  .. ',' .. color.G .. ',' .. color.B .. '">' .. word .. '<\font>' .. " "
         iscolored = true
         break
      end
   end

   if not iscolored then
      newtext ..= word .. " " -- Adding Space after word
   end
end

script.Parent.Text = newtext

Edit : Whoops, didn’t mean to reply to you, sorry
But also, you can’t use richtext on TextBoxes, maybe try what nicemike40 said

[GibusWielder (Kwick)]

Sorry for the late response. How would I make it so all of the keywords in lua are highlighted? Like print is yellow… etc.

Edit: I AM SO DUMB i just realized there’s a table in your code with all of the colours. Thank you so much!