UI Text

Here you will find various resources to help you create texts in Gideros Studio.

note: you may have to provide your own assets (fonts, gfx, …)

Text Wrap @Gideros Wiki

Example 1

-- TEXT WRAP FROM GIDEROS WIKI
local mystring = "Some very long text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor, dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor."
local textfield = TextField.new(nil, mystring)
textfield:setScale(2)
textfield:setSample(mystring)
textfield:setLayout( {w=144, h=100, lineSpacing=7, flags=FontBase.TLF_CENTER} )
textfield:setPosition(8, 16)
stage:addChild(textfield)

Example 2

application:setBackgroundColor(0x6c6c6c)

-- some vars
local width = application:getContentWidth()
local height = application:getContentHeight()

local mystring = [[
Some very long text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor,
dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTLF_BREAKWORDSxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTLF_BREAKWORDSxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxTLF_BREAKWORDS,
Some very long text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor,
dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor.
Some very long text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor,
dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor.
]]
local textfield = TextField.new(nil, mystring)
textfield:setSample(mystring)
textfield:setLayout( {w=width/3, h=height/2, lineSpacing=2, flags=FontBase.TLF_CENTER|FontBase.TLF_BREAKWORDS} )
textfield:setScale(2)
textfield:setPosition(8, 8)
stage:addChild(textfield)

Text Wrap2 @ar2rsawseen

Please follow this link: Text Wrap2 @ar2rsawseen

TextBox @antix

Please follow this link: TextBox @antix

TypeWriter @mokalux

Please follow this link: TypeWriter @mokalux

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