I’ve always wondered how people made line counters in gui like this in Lua
I wanna learn how it works so I can have the number of the line next to the guibox
I have no clue how to do it, so any help is appreciated!
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Can you elaborate on your question a bit? Are you asking how to recreate the line numbers in a gui box? If so, I’d create a frame for each line and put a text box next to each frame, with the line number as the text.
If you want to make a line counter, the obvious things you’ll need are a multiline string and a way to read each line. Luckily, my earlier problem could help you out here. My use case was needing to read the content off each line of a string, you could salvage any useful code there to make a counter:
Alternatively, another post wanted to check for new lines in strings, so you could use the guidance I gave on that post as a starting point for further research into the topic:
You can get the number of lines in a string this way
local String =
[[line 1
new line2
new line3]]
local function countLines(str)
local lines = 0
for _ in str:gmatch("\n") do -- string.gmatch(str, "\n") has a pending optimization because it's called directly from the string library, ideally use that instead of method calls, I used a method call as an alternative
lines = lines + 1
end
return lines + 1 -- account for last line
end
print(countLines(String)) --> 3
The TextBox’s Multiline property should be true, so that it’s a multiline string.
Edit: I forgot about string.gsub(), probably a cleaner solution
Or you know just
local _, count = str:gsub("\n", "")
Since the second return of gsub is how many replacements it made. For instance if there is 5 newlines then gsub will return 5.
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