How can I keep the text size the same, when adding more characters?

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#1

So, I’ve been creating a custom chat, and everything works fine. But, the text doesn’t stay the same.

Whenever someone tries to write a full sentence, the text goes smaller and smaller and it get’s hard to read.

Example

I’ve tried TextService:GetTextSize() and formatting it that way, but I keep getting the same error.

10:10:13.941 - Unable to cast token to int

This is the script I’ve been trying to work on.

local events = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("EventsFunctions")
local chatEvent = events:FindFirstChild("ChatEvent")
local textService = game:GetService("TextService")
local contextType = Enum.TextFilterContext.PublicChat

chatEvent.OnClientEvent:Connect(function(player,msg)
	local nameTeplate = game:GetService("ReplicatedStorage"):WaitForChild("NameTemplate"):Clone()
	
	nameTeplate.Parent = script.Parent.MessageHolder
	nameTeplate.Name = player.Name
	
	local newSize = textService:GetTextSize(msg,Enum.FontSize.Size14,Enum.Font.SourceSansLight,script.Parent.MessageHolder.AbsoluteSize) --// Error Occurs Here
	
	print(newSize)
end)

This is how I have my TextLabel and TextBox setup.

Setup (TextBox)

Setup (TextLabel)

Everything else works fine, I’m just not sure how to use :GetTextSize() properly and using that, keeping the same text size for larger amounts of characters.

Any help would be appreciated!

#2

You can add a UITextSizeConstraint that makes a limit for biggest and smallest size the text can have. If I were you I would tick TextScaled on and put UITextSizeConstraint. But it is up to you if you need that propertie.

#3

This sort of worked? It kept the text the same size, but when it was too much, the text just disappears.

Example

I put the TextConstraint inside of the TextLabel and the TextLabel has TextWrapped.

#4

You can make the TextBox larger on the Y Coordinate.
Or you can also make the TextBox TextScaled, but it will make the Text smaller and look all squeezed up together.
This might mess up your UI but I think it’s the only solution.

#5

Yeah, I just had to increase the size and use the text constraints to limit the text size. Thanks!

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