How can I add a line break with draw_text?

[HeathLocke 0]

Edit: Just found out that Blizzard's slice_text is for RGSS3. Shame on me. Editing the question so I don't need another thread.

 

I'm trying to add a newline on my script. Using \n, however, returns me a weird character.

 

The string that I'll use will be based on an array index, so I can't (more like don't wanna) do a two-dimensional array and do something like this (unless it's the only case):

for i in 0...text_array.size
self.contents.draw_text(0,32*i,self.width-32,32,text_array[i])
end

Is there any other way to put a line break? Putting characters on the string isn't a problem.

 

(Old post, just in case)

 

I'm having some trouble using Blizzard's slice_text to do some line breaks. When I try to draw the sliced text, I get the 'Cannot convert array into string' error. Here a part of my code:

     desc = self.contents.slice_text("Lorem Ipsum dolor sit \n amet", 186)  

      self.contents.draw_text(0, 184, 186, 32, "No. 1: " + desc, 1)

And here is the slice_text code. I'm using a version from KK20, so that it takes \n but I've tried the original one and it didn't worked too.

 

 

class Bitmap

 

  # Blizzard's slice_text method. This method can be removed if you have another

  # script that already uses it.

  def slice_text(text, width)

    lines = text.split("\n")

    result = []

    lines.each{|text_chunk|

      words = text_chunk.split(' ')

      current_text = words.shift

      if words.empty?

        result.push((current_text == nil ? "" : current_text))

        next

      end

      words.each_index {|i|

        if self.text_size("#{current_text} #{words[i]}").width > width

          result.push(current_text)

          current_text = words[i]

        else

          current_text = "#{current_text} #{words[i]}"

        end

        result.push(current_text) if i >= words.size - 1

      }

    }

    return result

  end

end

 

 

 

I don't get the error if I change the code to this:

     desc = self.contents.slice_text("Lorem Ipsum dolor sit \n amet", 186)  

      self.contents.draw_text(0, 184, 186, 32, "No. 1: #{desc}", 1)

But this way the linebreak doesn't works.

 

The only reason I'm using Blizzard's slice_text is for this script, so if there is any other way to break lines I'd be glad to know. Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Edited April 22, 2014 by HeathLocke

[Heretic86 25]

You can leave it as is, and convert it back into a string with .to_s I believe

 

More info here.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3500814/ruby-array-to-string-conversion

[HeathLocke 0]

Hey, sorry for the late reply. Tried that, and while I don't get the error, the string doesn't breaks, it resizes, just as if I didn't used text_slice.

Thanks for the help, anyway.

Edited April 20, 2014 by HeathLocke

[HeathLocke 0]

Just found out that the Blizzard's slice text script was for RGSS3. Edited the whole thread.