So, I’ve been trying to make it so RichText tags do not appear, but they take effect, and I’m not sure how to accomplish this. My code that I used just completely removes the tags and effect. (the text that appears uses a typewriter effect, so without something that removes the tags it would show the entire richtext tag and then apply the bold or whatever effect it is)
local function removeTags(str)
str = str:gsub("<br%s*/>", "\n")
return (str:gsub("<[^<>]->", ""))
end
It turns <(b)>ex<(/b)> into ex (ignore the parentheses, HTML also works on the devforum posts and without them the bolding characters wouldnt show).
PICTURES
i wanna turn this
into this without having to wait for the whole tag to type out
Why don’t you just check for the tags when you start typewriting, and then type inbetween it?
local Label = script.Parent
local TextToTypewrite = "hey there <b>I HOPE</b> that this actually works <b>FLAWLESSLY!!!!</b> yeah?"
local function RecursiveScanForTags(str: string, tagTable: {})
tagTable = tagTable or {Offset = 0}
local FindStart, FindEnd = string.find(str, "<.->")
if FindStart then
local Insert = {StartingTag = {Start = FindStart+tagTable.Offset, End = FindEnd+tagTable.Offset, SubString = string.sub(str, FindStart, FindEnd)}}
str = string.sub(str, FindEnd+1, string.len(str))
tagTable.Offset += FindEnd
local EndTagStart, EndTagEnd = string.find(str, "<.->")
if not EndTagStart then
error("Didn't close tag at '"..str.."'?") --just in case
end
Insert.EndingTag = {Start = EndTagStart+tagTable.Offset, End = EndTagEnd+tagTable.Offset, SubString = string.sub(str, EndTagStart, EndTagEnd)}
tagTable.Offset += EndTagEnd
str = string.sub(str, EndTagEnd+1, string.len(str))
table.insert(tagTable, Insert)
RecursiveScanForTags(str, tagTable)
end
tagTable.Offset = nil
return tagTable
end
local TagTable = RecursiveScanForTags(TextToTypewrite)
local OffsetStart = 0 --used to skip tags
local OffsetEnd = 0
local StringSkip = 0
local CurrentEndTag = nil
--typewriter example
for i=1, string.len(TextToTypewrite), 1 do
for _, OffsetTable in TagTable do
if i+StringSkip == OffsetTable.StartingTag.Start then
OffsetStart = OffsetTable.StartingTag.End
OffsetEnd = OffsetTable.EndingTag.Start
StringSkip += string.len(OffsetTable.StartingTag.SubString)
CurrentEndTag = OffsetTable.EndingTag.SubString
Label.Text = Label.Text..OffsetTable.StartingTag.SubString..OffsetTable.EndingTag.SubString
end
end
if i < OffsetEnd-StringSkip then
Label.Text = string.sub(TextToTypewrite, 1, i+StringSkip)..CurrentEndTag
else
if CurrentEndTag then
StringSkip += string.len(CurrentEndTag)
CurrentEndTag = nil
end
Label.Text = string.sub(TextToTypewrite, 1, i+StringSkip)
end
wait(.05)
end
Ok this actually took me like an hour to figure out a solution for this, but it’s functional, and you can actually check what type of tag you are about to hit too (since I stuffed it into a table), in case you want to do something special if it happens or something.
Is there any reason you’re opposed to increasing MaxVisibleGraphemes to accomplish the typewriter effect? You can get the length of ContentText and interpolate up to that number.
