Textrendering questions

[MuNgLo]

So I gone and done something stupid with my project so now I would love if I could parse text for colourcodes and present the text accordingly. As far as i know it isn't possible but I would also guess it wouldn't be easy to implement. Any chance at all this could get implemented?
At the very least I would suggest being able to have linebreaks in textfield and label.

Is there any way to manipulate the color value of a style or directly to the object? I need a simple colour field to show the colour of the rgb values the players choose. Could do it differently but I figure I'd ask.

I know I had another question but I forgot it..

Anyway. I am now reinstalling windows, updating unity and so far my OGSkin haven't bugged out. Here's what I'm using it for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xuc7cGjrkjU
Not much GUI right now but I have a whole IRC connection to build UI for. That's kinda what made me think of colours. Would love to have them but at the same time it might just be easier to make it in Unitys default UI.

[mrzapp]

I could do an "override colour" field on the OGWidget, sure.

You can totally use linebreaks in text fields and labels, there shouldn't be a problem with that. Something else you could do though is make your own subclass of OGWidget for your chat window. The wiki has a small tutorial for it. Then you can use the drawing methods directly, just like the native Unity UI. Just hardcode some OGStyles at the beginning of your code and use OGDrawHelper to draw your text. Text rendering is generally not perfect yet, but it's still better than being forced to use a draw call for every bit of text, IMO.

If I get some time, I'll try to make an example. Your game looks like a mixture between Quake and Mirror's Edge, I like it :)

[mrzapp]

I've updated the latest release to support colour tinting. However, I tried implementing support for colour codes, but it's going to require more than just a little work, and even though I'd really like to support it, seeing as not even the native OnGUI can do this, I think it's a feature we'll have to add later down the line, when glyph rendering is more developed. I'll add it to the tracker.

[MuNgLo]

Well seems I need to mess around more with OpenGUI. 😄
I will have to looking into how to make my own OGWidget later. Is there any depenndancy from the render calls or compile order and such that would get messed up if it was written in C#?
Understandably this isn't really that important. Having nice text, properly rendered in all situations are far more important.

[mrzapp]

I don't see any immediate issues with writing it in C#, it should work just the same. Our main text issues right now are kerning related, so that's what I'll be focusing on first, but we'll get around to the fancy stuff.