Action to insert line breaks/carriage returns for Strings

[jess84]

It would be useful to have an action where I could select my string, and then be able to add a return character at a given point, in order to have a GUI Text appearing over multiple lines.

I'd like to be able to say "after every n'th character, add a line break". (ideally however not inserting a break in the middle of a word, just in the nearest space)

Is this even possible?

I have Daikon Forge, but at the moment it's pretty unusable on mobile. And before I buy another GUI solution, I'd like to be able to display my text at least semi ok.

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 simply use "\n" and that will work, this is the code for a return.

else, simply copy paste a return from a regular text file and paste it in a global variable or on a specific action. that works very well too.


 Bye,

 Jean

[jess84]

\n wouldn't work for me when used in a GUI Text component.

Regardless, this would require manually adding the character - If I've got a text string of 200 characters, and the text might change as I rewrite text, then this isn't practical.

An action for automatically inserting at a designated interval would be much more useful.

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 yeah, and in that case, simply store the return in a local variable and build your strings the way you want. I do that all the time. no need for an action here in my opinion.

 simply open a text editor and copy 2 empty lines and paste it in your fsm string variable and then you are free to write anything!

 otherwise you can also rely on better UI like Ngui and else where you have a stronger and more powerful text editing built in.

 Bye,

 Jean

[moondust.games]

Hi, I know this thread is a little old but does the copy and pasting a return from textedit still work?

As I cannot get it to work and when I insert my "return" character into a string that's  passed to GUI text I just get a space.

Could someone please test in Unity 5 and let me know as it's driving me mad

[jeanfabre]

Hi,

 funny you say that, I am currently exposing custom actions I find in various projects back to Ecosystem, and I have put 3 new actions:

StringAddNewLine
StringDeleteLine
StringGetLineCount

as for the carriage return, yeah, it's odd I can't get it to work neither...

Bye,

 Jean

[moondust.games]

That was perfect Jean. And good timing

Thanks,
Philip.

[Alatriste]

Awesome! Thanks! I was also having some troubles making work the trick of the variable. 

[PolyMad]

I am using BUILD STRING and tried \n as separator, but it doesn't work.
Any idea how to make it?

Man these are the things that really put me down... it shouldn't be so difficult to have a new line at all... you can't annoy all the people in need of such a basic function, it's terrible... how could they at Unity overlooked something like this...

Deh, the STRINGADDNEWLINE works for me, thank you!