Text Block Sprite

andybarilla

I created a control for a block of text. It works much like the TextField but you can specify the maximum width and it will wrap to a second line.

local textArea = TextArea.new(font, text) textArea:setPosition(10, 10) textArea:setMaxWidth(300) textArea:setLineSpacing(4) textArea:setTextColor(0xffffff) self:addChild(textArea)

The source code is here: https://github.com/mozicodo/gideros-TextArea

MikeHart

NICE! Thanks for sharing.

Does it work with BMFonts too?

andybarilla

It should. It just wraps up a bunch of TextFields and passes the fonts to them.

MikeHart

Ok, then not. Cause BMFont are supported by BMTextFields, not Textfields.

andybarilla

Ahh. Never used bitmap fonts. It should be easy enough to do a bitmap capable version.