How do you get text that types itself out in GM?, Like in Cave Story or The Underside.

I want to get text that types itself out for a game I'm making, but I'm not sure how to do that.

Any suggestions?

What do you mean by "types itself out"?

I guess he means like a typewriter.

Try looking at the GMC - there's alot of textbox scripts, one being a rather advanced example called Textbox Engine by J-Factor if you don't want to code it all by yourself.

The main thing is adding one character at a time to a variable, then drawing it. Say like, you set an alarm (my method, you can also use a script that uses sleep() and restarts itself after a character has been added but be aware that this stops all movement on screen) and if its value is 0, you take the next character from stringA and add it to stringB and reset the alarm. I know it sounds a bit complicated but maybe this little example helps you:

Wait, I get it.

I can't get it to work right.
I'm using this:

but nothing comes up on my box.

My old code had the text come up all at once, but did not require a secondary object to be made.

This post has been edited by Thingy on Oct 18 2009, 10:30 AM

Guys, stop giving way more complex code than you need.

Very easy to do; stop over-complicating things.

In the draw event, just draw the string however you want. Use any font you want, including fonts you can make with font_add_sprite() (you can see how to use it in the GM manual).

This post has been edited by RetroXYZ on Oct 18 2009, 10:52 AM

Very easy to do; stop over-complicating things.

In the draw event, just draw the string however you want. Use any font you want, including fonts you can make with font_add_sprite() (you can see how to use it in the GM manual).

Is there a way to change the delay in the middle of a string? Like, when someone talks at normal speed and then 3 dots (...) appear, but they apear really slow?

Well, it would have to be checked for in the alarm, and change the time that the alarm sets. It would be very-specific.

Thank you very much RetroX, I needed this!

nice.
how would you make it so every 50 characters it draws it down one line?

(and I think I will use this, so do you want credit?)

I think just putting a # in does the trick.

Also will I be able to use characters such as / + - * and .?

Yes, you can. And # makes a new line.

Any string in Game Maker will work. Use # for a new line, and use ## for a #.

No problem!

it should be something like

if (string_length(string_draw) mod 50 == 0)
  string_draw += "#";