RenderText string equivalent of TextFloatReference

[rrTea]

RenderText.TextFloatReference can show a variable, I often wish strings would be supported that way too. That'd cut the need to always name a RenderText component every time it has to show some non-static text and there'd be no need for always taking care of it manually in a ZExpression.

So for example:

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Say = "Hello!";

with RenderText.TextString set to Say would show "Hello!" etc. - just makes sense that RenderText would be used with plain text too

[VilleK]

Hi, I tried adding a "TextStringRef" property to RenderText that should do what you are asking for. Can you please test the attached exe-file (designer only) and tell me if it works? If it does then I'll rebuild the runtime files too.

[Rado1]

Works for me.

[rrTea]

Works great, at least the basic tests I tried (changing the variable string value during runtime etc). I was expecting to find it under TextFloatRef, was a bit surprised that it's closer to the bottom This will save some naming of the components and weed out the little bits of code that update them!

Btw the console text is working fine in this "test" ZGE version, I'm mentioning it because it has been glitched for some half a year or so (the lower part of every line is cut off - I reported it a long time ago, can't find where...).

[VilleK]

Good. Note that it supports full expressions, so if you have a string variable "S", then you can set TextStringRef to "Title: " + S, etc. I'll rebuild the engines in a day or two.

[rrTea]

...TextStringRef to "Title: " + S...

I actually haven't thought of testing that - great

[VilleK]

Rebuilt all now. Renamed property to "TextExpression" and moved it upwards in the list: http://www.zgameeditor.org/files/ZGameEditor_beta.zip

[rrTea]

I can't access it, here is what it looks like on my end (using the newest build).

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[VilleK]

I get the same problem here, I must have done something wrong while rebuilding, will check.

[VilleK]

Fixed now: http://www.zgameeditor.org/files/ZGameEditor_beta.zip
I had forgotten to "git push"

[Rado1]

Text, TextFloatRef and TextArray of RenderText are maybe superfluous if there's RenderText.TextExpression property. They maybe can be removed if we do not care too much about backward compatibility. Or do they provide better performance?