I’m working on a system for a research game, where you can use a computer to write documents and then save them to your account. However, I’m having issues coming up with how I would save it. I could easily just get all the text and save it, however, any line/paragraph breaks would be lost, making it just one long line of text more like a note than a document. How can I save the text in a text box, and have it include multiple lines without causing the retrieved text to be formatted back into a single line?
Why would they be lost? If they are all in a single text box (and the user put the breaks there), for as long as it is the exact text from the box, they won’t be lost. If you have a custom system for making new lines, then simply append \n to the string. That should keep the line breaks.
I think \n would work, but when you do something such as
local text = Textbox.Text
It gets formatted into a string which looks like this “Text”, which obviously removes any form of formatting.
If I use \n i’d have to find a way to find all of the line breaks and before turning it into a string, put \n.
That’s weird. I from my experience, this never happened to me. I even made an “application” center where people have to write multiple paragraphs of text and it wouldn’t have this issue. Let me try to replicate it in studio to see if that actually happens.
I’ll also replicate it, i’d assume that it works this way since this is how strings are usually stored but maybe i’m wrong and I’ve done something wrong
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Since you marked it as the solution, I assume that it works, but for any future people looking this up, TextBox.Text does indeed store multi-line text. I made a simple setup where you write something and it outputs it. As you can see, all the line breaks are indeed printed on the output window.
While this does work normally, I’ve yet to see if this works with datastore, but I’ll update later if it does.
It seems to work for me. I did a full test with DataStores and it works flawlessly. You can see it below:
I’ll also attach the entire place file if you want to check out the code (if you want to use it, make sure to upload it as a game and enable API services for studio, or test it in-game). If it doesn’t work for you, then you are probably doing something wrong.
For DataStore.rbxl (51.4 KB)
If you have any further questions or problems, please let me know. Hopefully this helped.
Enable RichText property on the TextBox in Import screen GUI. This will allow you to use the line break with the tag <br /> instead of \n.
And the other thing you need to do is to convert all \n tags in your text to a <br /> tag when you import your document text. This can be done by :gsub:
Replace line 19 in DataStoreMainHandler to:
return SampleDataStore:GetAsync("SampleText"):gsub("\n", "<br />")
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