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GUI ML TextCtrl Line Spacing

by Mike Wright · in Torque Game Builder · 03/10/2007 (10:36 pm) · 2 replies

I am having a problem with the GUIMLTextCtrl. In the GUI editor, there is a field labeled lineSpacing that gives you control over the spacing between lines in pixels. No matter what I type in, the spacing between my lines of text does not change. Has anyone used this feature and got it to work?

Thanks for any help.
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Torque Owner Arthur Ogawa
#1
03/13/2007 (2:30 pm)
I read through the source code (./gui/controls/guiMLTextCtrl.cc) and it looked like it did nothing with that member field. I compared to guiMessageVectorCtrl (./gui/game/guiMessageVectorCtrl.cc) and it looked very different how that class works with the member field of the same name (the two classes are not strongly connected in the hierarchy, but share functionality to some extent).

I have to conclude that guiMLTextCtrl is just incompletely coded. You might want to escalate things a bit. This issue would be of equal concern to TGE and TGB users.

Torque Owner Mike Wright
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03/14/2007 (8:21 am)
Being kind of new to the Garage Games message boards, I'm not sure how to escalate this matter. Hopefully, the person that would fix the problem will read this thread.

Until then, I do have a work around for anyone that comes across the need for this. The GUIMLTextCtrl lets you specify the font size on the any idividual character so we just put a carriage return in between lines and experimented with the size of the carriage return until we got the spacing we desired.


Thanks for looking into the code Arthur. Hopefully now that the problem is discovered, it will get fixed in the near future.