Unnecessary spaces between nodes of different colors.

[astrochili]

I'm trying to color a part of existing text, but the library creates unnecessary spaces between nodes of different colors.

Hello Mickey, - >He llo Mickey ,
Georg, -> Georg ,
Adam? -> Adam ?

An example to reproduce: richtext_coloring.zip

[britzl]

Ah, yes, this is a tricky one.

Here's the width of three different strings:

STRING	WIDTH
Georg,	47
Georg	41
,	7

As you can see you get a different width of the string "Georg," when you measure "Georg" and "," individually and sum the widths. I'm not entirely sure what can be done about it....

[astrochili]

Ah, yes, this is a tricky one.

Here's the width of three different strings:

STRING WIDTH
Georg, 47
Georg 41
, 7
As you can see you get a different width of the string "Georg," when you measure "Georg" and "," individually and sum the widths. I'm not entirely sure what can be done about it....

I understand that this is due to the possibility of overlaying font elements in the word.

For example, we can to find blocks of the same font size, calculate their width as a seamless node and subtract the width difference between seamless node and two separated nodes. And then set this difference to the offset.

Ideally, we should get the margins of the first/last node font symbols itself and combine the nodes with the overlay margins.

[subsoap]

@astrochili Did you ever come up with a solution that worked for you?

[astrochili]

@astrochili Did you ever come up with a solution that worked for you?

Unfortunately, no, but if you know in advance which parts you need to highlight, you can highlight them with the default color in the normal state. This should allow you to change only the color without changing the nodes.

But this method doesn't solve the problem of extra spacing.

[subsoap]

@JCash
any idea on how to actually fix this properly? I need to highlight words over time without everything jumping around

[subsoap]

really stupid hacky way I'm considering:
create two sets of nodes one normal color one highlighted
for normal set disable any nodes which are currently highlighted
for highlighted disable all normal nodes
that way tags are not being used
but doing this sucks

[JCash]

I haven't thought about it tbh.
I'll need to read up on the code a bit to get a better understanding what's included in the widths

[ChuckMayo]

We're also dealing with this issue and are looking for a fix or workaround