Text Wrap Won't Work When String Changed

StuartY

Hi guys,

I've got an actor set up to display a string attribute with a centre-aligned wrap. When I enter the string by manually altering the attribute from the editor it works fine, e.g;

This is an
example of
a sentence.

When I alter the string, however, using change attribute and an expression, e.g. "This is an example of a sentence" it displays like this;

This is an ex
ample of a s
entence.

Now, I've heard of line breaks and spaces but I did't realise we had to enter WORD breaks in GS! Any ideas where I'm going wrong, or is this just a bug? Any workaround ideas, as you can't place line breaks directly in a string either.

Note; examples are right-aligned because of the forum.

gyroscope

Hi StuartY, that's odd. the only thing I can think of is put the initial text straight into a text attribute. I've just done a test, and it works fine.

StuartY

What did you do, specifically? Maybe I'm doing something wrong. So my string is called "text". My actor is set up to display game.text. The string is blank, but I put in a rule to change attribute game.text to this expression: "Example text". Does that sound like what you were doing?

StuartY

Cheers Gyro, just cracked it. You have to just enter the text in the box without hitting the e to use the expression editor, and remove the expression if it pops up. Must be something to do with how strings behave.

micksolo

so that's fine if you're only displaying text, but if you want to display text + the value of an attribute?