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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 15, 2017, 03:11:55 AM »

Problem solved: I renamed all of my lists/filters in all caps ! 

Thanks everyone for their time and help. Sometimes there's a much simpler way to do it!

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 14, 2017, 10:12:26 AM »

Honestly, that's not the problem.

If I swap [!filtername] with [FilterName] it works fine (but is obviously not in capitals). The issue I'm having is that the function isn't working.

Actually, did you try to change ? What is your result?

local filter1 = fe.add_text("LIST: [!filtername]", flx*0.18, fly*0.02, flw*0.600, flh*0.500 );

This just moved the text ("LIST:") to the other side of the screen, but the filter name from the function is still not working.

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 14, 2017, 07:03:17 AM »

Honestly, that's not the problem.

If I swap [!filtername] with [FilterName] it works fine (but is obviously not in capitals). The issue I'm having is that the function isn't working.

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 14, 2017, 01:25:39 AM »

I think you set a incorrect x axis location (outside of screen)

local filter2 = fe.add_text("LIST:", flx*1.18, fly*0.02, flw*0.600, flh*0.500 );

Please try to change it to flx*0.1

Unfortunately that's not the issue. The text is being rotated 90 degrees, which is why it needs the odd positioning. The text "LIST:" is still visible, just not the filter/list name. So the problem definitely appears to be in the function?

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 13, 2017, 10:35:04 AM »

Please update filtername fucntion as below 

function filtername(){
     local text = fe.filters[1];
     return text.name.toupper();
}

OK. So, the ROM name/title is now showing - and working in uppercase!!

BUT, The filer/list name is not showing now. So it looks like there's something wrong with fe.filters[1] ?

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 13, 2017, 03:30:41 AM »

Sure. Attached

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 13, 2017, 12:54:42 AM »

OK, I have no idea where I'm going wrong, but I still can't get this to work.

Here's the code.

Code: [Select]

function title(){
  local text = fe.game_info(Info.Title);
  return text.toupper();
}

local title = fe.add_text("[!title]  PLAYS: [PlayedCount]", flx*0.235, fly*0.02, flw*0.600, flh*0.500 );
Using this, the text doesn't display at all, so something's off. As soon as I remove the function and stop trying to make the text uppercase, it's fine. So it's definitely the function causing the issues 

Any final thoughts? If not, I'll learn to live with it, or will find a suitable replacement uppercase font.

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 12, 2017, 01:21:27 AM »

Brilliant.

Thank you keilmillerjr and jedione for your help and time on this. Will give it a go this evening (UK).

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 11, 2017, 01:11:23 AM »

Got the colours working now. Thanks all for the advice.
Now searching for a decent replacement font that's all caps. If only I could get .toupper could work!

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 10, 2017, 06:08:16 AM »

Ah, I get you now. Yeah, that sounds like it'd work fine. I'll give it a try this evening and will let you know how it turned out.
Thanks!

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 10, 2017, 04:31:11 AM »

That wouldn't achieve the alignment I'm after - I want the two to flow together in one text object. Example below.

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 10, 2017, 01:29:30 AM »

Thanks for the responses.
So, it pretty much looks like I can't easily get the effect/layout I'm after and will have to compromise with text all the same colour and not uppercase.

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Scripting / Re: Text styling questions

« on: October 09, 2017, 05:31:54 AM »

OK. So, to get my desired effect - of having the Title and Play Count coloured individually, but placed within / positioned with the same text object - presumably I need to define and colour each individually and then call them together within a text object? (as you can tell, I'm no programmer and so very likely not using the correct terms here).
If so, how would I go about doing this?

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Scripting / Text styling questions

« on: October 09, 2017, 01:22:04 AM »

I'm hoping someone can help me with a, hopefully, pretty simple newbie question.

I have the following string that I want to be able to style in two different colours:

Code: [Select]

local details = fe.add_text("[Title] - Plays: [PlayedCount]", flx*0.235, fly*0.02, flw*0.300, flh*0.500 );
For example, I want the title to be white but the play count to be blue. But I have to have the two grouped together so that the play count always follows on directly from the title - I don't them to be positioned independently.

Also, how can I make this string uppercase? I have tried using toupper, as below, but it doesn't work.

Code: [Select]

details.toupper();
thanks in advance for any help.

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Themes / Re: Help Developing a Theme

« on: September 12, 2017, 09:31:39 AM »

Cool. Thank you. I should be able to send assets etc tomorrow. thanks again.