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[Mr.Troid]

NO HELP REQUIRED!

Edited by Mr.Troid, 10 September 2012 - 02:51 AM.

[FoxInABox]

you can loop thru the string one letter at a time and draw each like this:

str="this is a /i test" // and you want to replace /i with a image
var i,c,w;
i=0; // i is the position in the string, c is the character at that position
w=0; // is total width of all characters written so far

while(i<string_length(str)){ i+=1; // I incrase i at top since the first string position is at 1

c=string_char_at(str,i) // get the character

// here you can check for spesific letters

draw_text(x+w,y,c) // draw the character

w+=string_width(c) // move the width by the size of the character that was drawn
}

at the place that you can search for spesific letters you might want to use a code somewhat like this:

if c="/"{ // check if c is / ..
  if string_char_at(str,i+1)="i"{ // if it the character after it is i so it is /i .. then:
    draw_sprite(spr_image,0,x+w,y) // draw it where we would draw text
    w+=32; // add some to width based on width of the sprite
    i+=1; // i is incrased by 1 at the top, and and it need to move an additional one to reach the space after /i
    continue; // this will jump to the top of the loop, so that the draw_text part is not performed
  }
}

and yes, you could change alpha if you use draw_sprite_ext and draw_text_ext and just have a variable that decrase from 1 to 0 slowly, even animate the sprites and give it a typewriter/wave effect (I luv the wave eff.) , totaly up to you x3

[Mr.Troid]

Thanks, I'll try it and see how it works.

[Mr.Troid]

Nope it didn't work. I put all of the code in the draw event. What am I doing wrong?

[FoxInABox]

I tested it .. works fine, I guess you didn't read it well enough x3

put the 2nd code piece where it says "// here you can check for spesific letters" in the first code..

I just made them seperate so they should make more sence

[Mr.Troid]

...OOOOOOH! Okay, now it's working. I knew I was doing something wrong. Thanks Fox.

Edited by Mr.Troid, 19 April 2012 - 10:04 PM.