Feature request: More text functionality?

[MrEldritch]

Would it be possible to improve the capabilities of the text system? Something like the functionality of the Gooninator's text scripting system would be ideal - http://gooninator.neocities.org/text_help.html - something where you can set multiple phrases to be displayed in a particular order, and have some control over how text is displayed.

It would also be really nice to be able to actually edit the text components in a text file and load them in for a specific theme, the way we can load in sets of images, audio files, and fonts, rather than having to manually enter them into the text box.

[ohgodhowdidthis]

I had a look at how the program you linked works. It might be difficult to allow control of the timings, since they are supposed to sync up with the images anyway, but some control of the display might be possible.

I will also see if we can do the text files since that seems reasonable.

For now, you might like to know that there is a way to display phrases in a particular order already, by writing the phrases on a single line separated by / characters, such as:

PHRASE ONE / PHRASE TWO / PHASE THREE.

(Although the entire line still has to be chosen randomly, and some visualizers will chop up the words and display the whole thing word-by-word.)