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#41

Please do! TextScaled is an essential property for any text-based element and it would be the cherry on top to an incredible resource!

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#42

:bell: Version 1.3.0

New features:

  • New Rotation (local) customization option.
  • New Offset customization option.

Changes & improvements:

  • Switched alignments to use string instead of enum.
  • Fixed Dynamic disabling.
  • Minor performance improvements.
  • Minor comment changes and additions.
#43

XML to Lua converter update

The converter now provides simple guiding messages in case something goes wrong.

For anybody interested, it has also been open-sourced, now available on GitHub.

#44

:bell: Version 1.4.0

New features:

  • New Justified x alignment — spaces words so that they fill up the frame.

Changes & improvements:

  • Now accepts all container types:
    • Frames
    • ScrollingFrames
    • CanvasGroups
  • Moved player variable to the font loading scope.
  • Minor comment changes.
#45

Hey, is it supposed to look like this, or is it just my font (JetBrains Mono + Italic)?

Rodsee

#46

It should not look like that. If you can provide me the code to recreate the issue, I will figure out the issue.

#47

Looks like multiple spaces are automatically trimmed and/or converted to one space. Any way to stop that happening? I’m using a monospace font and leaving specific gaps for other images I’m introducing, and the spaces left in the text are perfectly calibrated for that purpose.

#48

There’s currently no built-in way to avoid this.
I will be releasing a huge update soon, and I’ll take this into account!
Thanks for reporting the issue.

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#49

:bell: Version 1.5.0

New features:

  • New Justified y alignment.

Changes & improvements:

  • New way of providing custom fonts, that provides full autocomplete. Check documentation at the top for more info.
  • Split Vector2 up for custom font character size and offset data.
    • LuaXML was updated accordingly.
    • Custom fonts need to be reconverted to be compatible.
  • Now no longer removes consecutive whitespace — was a bug.
  • Now also confirms Roblox fonts, providing an error message if invalid.
  • GetTextBounds now returns Vector2.zero if the text bounds are not found, instead of erroring.
  • Now exports Customization and CustomFont types for outside use.
  • All functions now have descriptions/documentation.
  • Function types are now defined at the functions themselves.
  • When verifying custom font’s character it now also ensures that the characters are of length 1.
  • Fixed Roblox fonts getting a y alignment string. Now is always Enum.TextYAlignment.Top.
  • Reduced if statements significantly in the GetCharacters function.
  • Now precalculates normalized size for custom fonts’ offset and x advance.
  • Now applies Font to bounds calculation params only once per render.
  • Changed numeric loops in GetCharacters function to generalized iteration.
  • Replaced math.max uses with if statements.
  • Changed a few pairs use to generalized iteration.
  • Comment changes and additions.
  • Version number is now listed at the top.
  • Shortened DevForum link.
#50

:bell: Version 1.6.0

New features:

  • Added shadow feature. Use ShadowColor and ShadowOffset customizations.
  • Added GetCustomization function.

Changes & improvements:

  • New custom absolute size calculation and monitoring system, removing the 1 frame delay.
    • This also fixes the invalid alignment calculation when using a newborn frame.
  • Fixed Justified y alignment.
  • Fixed not being able to disable boolean customizations with false.
  • Fixed TextBounds not taking into account Justified alignment.
  • Fixed a few text height calculation bugs.
  • Fixed some stroke customization handling bugs.
  • Fixed custom font verification freezing before attempting to modify when an invalid is found.
  • Changed Offset customization from UDim2 to Vector2.
  • Improved function documentation.
  • Removed invalid font warn.
  • Minor warn message changes.
  • Removed unnecessary check and variable in the GetCharacters function.
  • Removed unnecessary variable pre-declarations in the custom fonts preloading.
  • Changed Color3.new to Color3.fromRGB, because it’s faster.
  • Comment changes and additions.
  • Variable renamings.
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#51

As of version 1.6.0, it is now super easy to create text shadows!
Simply use the ShadowOffset and ShadowColor customizations.
The shadow and the main text instances will be linked — the main is a child of the shadow.

#52

Multiple spaces do now work, but they’re currently doubled, leading to much larger gaps than intended. I’ve fixed this by locally updating TextPlus to have a specific edge case for words that contain only spaces:

-- Add space before the next character.
if not (#word[1] == 1 and character[1] == " ") then
	x += width
end

Which works perfectly for me.

#53

Spent more than half of hour getting the .exe to work, still unsuccessful:

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#54

Thanks for pointing this out!
It’ll be fixed in the next update.

#55

Hey there!

I want to apologize for not including instructions for this.
Weird how a lot of other people got it working easily.

Anyways the problem lies in the version of Lua.
I compiled the program with RTC, which uses a different version of 5.4.
Honestly I can’t tell you why, but the solution is to use the Lua .dll file that RTC uses.
One solution is to download RTC from GitHub, and then grab lua54.dll from there.

I will be updating the LuaXML zip file to include the correct version of Lua already within the folder.

Thanks for pointing this out. If you have any further questions, let me know!

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#56

It’s now fixed as of version 1.6.1. Let me know if there are any further issues.

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#57

Alexander, is it fine for you to code in like line-breaks?
I have two images here, #1 being your module (super cool) and #2 being regular roblox text.
Hopefully you won’t have that many problems and line-breaks are pretty important for long text!

These both have the same text:
“Very Long Text Very Long Text Very Long Text Very Long Text Very Long Text Very Long Text”

Image #1:

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Image #2 (w/ TextLabel):
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#58

Hey there!

My module supports both automatic and manual line breaks. Both are covered in the tutorial Fundamentals section.

If you can’t figure it out, please send me the code to reproduce the issue, thanks!

#59

Wait Alexander, is it fine if you could add in an option to add automatic line-breaks? I was just hoping that :sweat_smile:. (Great to know you can force line-breaks in the module)

#60

As I’ve said, there are already automatic line-breaks. You can’t disable it. The frame controls the bounding box.