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Hi everybody, I just made a function to side scroll text action movie style (take a look at the bottom of the post for a preview).
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int time, blink, i;
char temp[255];
 
void type(char myText[255],int speed)
{
     if ( strcmp(&myText[i],"|")!=0  )
     {
        if (time==speed)
        {
           if (i<254&&i!=0)
           {
              strcpy(text,temp);
              strncat(text,&myText[i],1);
              strcpy(temp,text);
              strcat(text,"_");
            }
 
           else
           {
              strncpy(text,&myText[i],1);
              strcpy(temp,text);
           }
 
           time=0;
           i++;
        }
        time++;
      }
      else
      {
          if (time==speed*2)
          {
             if (blink==0)
             {
                strcpy(text,temp);
                strcpy(temp,text);
                blink=1;
             }
             else if (blink==1)
             {
                strcat(text,"_");
                blink=2;
             }
             else
             {
                strcpy(text, temp);
                blink=1;
             }
             time=0;
           }
           time++;
       }
}

In the draw event of your text actor put

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type("20:00\nThe North Valley\nOperation commencing|",3);

Of course change the text to suit your needs, 3 changes the scrolling speed (1 being the fastest).

You have to end a sentence with | or it will get buggy!
| represents the blinking cursor, and tells the function when to stop copying text.
To change to a new row use \n as usual.
You can add sound easily.

The code works fine but I think that it has a few bugs(ex. try leaving | out), so if anyone corrects them or optimizes the code please post it here.
I hope you find a good use for it.
Please post your opinion!

AHHHHHH
YOUR MY HERO!
Mind if i borrow?

Just tried it out, works great, but you should also put that you need to insert a font and the first letter of the message (For short...)
But it works like a charm!

Game A Gogo wrote:Mind if i borrow?

Feel free

Game A Gogo wrote:but you should also put that you need to insert a font and the first letter of the message (For short...)

What do you mean by this?
Of course you have to select a font, this code is for text actors.
I put a "." so it starts displaying text, otherwise if you leave the text field empty I just shows the pacman icon regardless of the code you use (GE bug?).
This part of code is for overwriting the first letter so you can put anything (like . , _ ).

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           else
           {
              strncpy(text,&myText[i],1);
              strcpy(temp,text);
           }

well, i jsut start it whit the first character, its not a GE bug, since you cant change a normal actor to a text actor, and since there is no text triggered to the actor, so it stays the same.

1 + point for you!

Game A Gogo wrote:Mind if i borrow?

could I do the same?
did you take classes on how to script?

EDIT: I modified it!
http://game-editor.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 8696#18696

Borrow away.
That's why I put it here.

I didn't have any classes, but I bought a book about C and tried really hard, I'm far from finished.

what is the book called!?
*drools*

"The C programming language"

wow, I should have figured thgat out

Theres a million places you can learn C online for free too sparky!

Try typing "C tutorial" into google

Also about equally as important for GE, I'd advise reading up on 2D vector maths.. you really only need to understand the most basic concepts like addition, subtraction, lengths, distances and trigonometry and you should find getting your games to behave as you like gets a lot easier!

Novice, can I use your code too?
How can I empty and change the text? I have a text:
"Welcome" and I would like it to change when I make something.
I tried to change it with a variable

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if (computerDATA == 0)
{
type("Welcome|",3);
}
if (computerDATA == 1)
{
type("You've entered in the head quarters|",3);
}

but it doesn't help. Please help me.

do you have something to make computerDATA ==1 you need something for example get a small thing to move left or right and set collision with it to make computerDATA = +1

Of course I have something to make computerDATA 1. I have also one to make it 2,3,4 etc.

explain what it does does it stay at welcome or skip or something