DisplayTextToPlayer...

04-14-2006, 11:29 PM

Is it possible to have multiple "texts" created by the DisplayTextToPlayer on a player's screen? When I use the function, it clears all past texts and displays only what I specified last. Ask for clarification...

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Here's all that is in my map (excluding the init function and event)

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call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(Player(0),2.4,1.4,9999,"|")
call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(Player(0),2.3,1.4,9999,"|2")

This will cause the first timedtext to disappear and the second one to appear. I affirmed this by looking in the log. Both texts are in the log but only the second appears on the screen.

~Thx in advance~

04-15-2006, 12:41 AM	#2
TaintedReality	It's clearing all previous text messages on the screen? Are you sure they're not just expiring or something (if you have a very short message it will expire very fast)? It shouldn't be clearing all text messages.

04-15-2006, 01:04 PM	#3
paidan_fain	Unless my version of warcraft is corrupt, It shouldn't be expiring. The time is set to 99999 or something along those lines...ill try again though.

04-15-2006, 01:13 PM	#4
Taur	well if the message you want to display is relatively long then other lines will be cleared to make room. Try displaying 2 small sentences and seeing if it works.

04-15-2006, 04:26 PM	#5
paidan_fain	Here's all that is in my map (excluding the init function and event) Code: call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(Player(0),2.4,1.4,9999,"\|") call DisplayTimedTextToPlayer(Player(0),2.3,1.4,9999,"\|2") This will cause the first timedtext to disappear and the second one to appear. I affirmed this by looking in the log. Both texts are in the log but only the second appears on the screen.

04-15-2006, 04:44 PM	#6
TaintedReality	Maybe it's the \| that's doing it, since that tells war3 the next character is an escape sequence (or whatever you call it). \|n is new line, \|c shows color, etc. Try having messages without the \|, and see if that works.

04-15-2006, 04:53 PM	#7
paidan_fain	Wow thats retarded...you know the x and y positions you can set for texts? Well apparently anytime you change the x or y position, it sets that position for ALL previous texts as well (with an offset to prevent overlaps)... Also, if \| is for escape characters...would I use \|\| to make a \|?

04-15-2006, 07:30 PM	#8
TaintedReality	Haven't actually used it, but logically, yes, \|\| would show \|.