[Tutorial] y_text and y_languages

[MP2]

But say I wanted to make a 'list' of 10 textdraws on the screen. I would use a loop and the height would be, for example, 100+(i*10), if the list started at Y-100 and went down Y-10 every time. I would need to get the raw text to be able to do this. Is there absolutely no way of doing this?

Surely the text that is passed to GameTextForPlayer etc. interally has the colours processed at that point - can't that be passed to a function for what I want? By just specifying the type of style (client-message, TD/gametext etc.)?

[Y_Less]

There is "Text_GetLastID", with which you can do:

Text_Send(whoever, whatever);
new Text:td = Text:Text_GetLastID();
if (td != Text:-1)
{
    TD_TextPosition(td, x, y);
}

"Text_GetLastID" is a bit of a hack for manipulating TDs, and returns -1 if the display style is not a text draw.

[Pupak]

Hello! This line is from my language file:

banCheck = Error: #WHITEYou have been banned by administrator #RED%s#WHITE.\n#REDReason:{WHITE} %s

Note "\n#RED" part. There is #RED in front of "Reason" but it appears to be white in-game, altough when I put whitespace after new line ("\n #RED") it appears to be red text in-game but then it looks like this.

First case: http://i39.tinypic.com/351fw4k.png
Second case: http://i43.tinypic.com/plh1w.png

Is there any solution for this? I don't want to have whitespace before "Reason: ...". Thanks!

[Y_Less]

I think that might be a bug, I'll try fix it.

[Pupak]

This is a temporary solution for me (if anyone else has the problem):

Script:

Text_Send(playerid, $banned);
Text_Send(playerid, $banReason);

Language file:

banned = Error: #WHITEYou have been banned by administrator #RED%s#WHITE.
banReason = Reason: #WHITE%s.

Lang data file:

<entry name="banned" style="client" colour="X11_RED" />
<entry name="banReason" style="client" colour="X11_RED" />

Just use as much entries as you need.