TypingLabel - Simulates text being typed in real time.

[wizered67]

Wow, that was really fast! Both the API changes were really helpful and I was able to get everything working in a much nicer way than before.

Okay, one more thing I'm stuck on that I think an API addition would be needed for. I'm trying to get my saving and loading system (using Kryo) working with this. I've been able to get it partially working so far. When I save, I store getOriginalText. Then, when I load I just restart the TypingLabel with that as its text. The problem is that this doesn't store the progression of the text, and as far as I can tell there isn't anyway to do so. Would you consider adding a way to get the progress of the text (ie how far it has scrolled) and a way to force set the progress to a certain point. I imagine it would ideally be like skipToEnd, including options to skip effects and skip events, but instead of going to the end it goes to a specific point in text. Thanks again so much!

[wizered67]

I've found a bug that I was hoping you could take a look at when you have the chance. Resizing the window while text is being typed will sometimes cause the text to get messed up and start overlapping itself. Here's a screenshot so you can see what I mean.


I tested with and without Tokens in the text and the bug appeared either way. Usually the overlapping text issue goes away if the screen is resized again, so I thought maybe the layout method wasn't getting called the first time but that doesn't seem to be the case. I took a look through the code to see if I could figure out the cause but I wasn't able to so I was hoping you could take a look. Overall though your TypingLabel has been great and a pleasure to use. Thanks so much for making it!

[RafaSKB]

Uh oh, this is bad. I'll take a look into it as soon as possible (probably next week). I think the fix should be simple enough, a recalculation of the glyph positions when a resize happens.

I will also see if I can add the cursor/index getter and setters you suggested before, sorry for missing your post.

Thanks for the report, and I'm glad the library is useful!

[wizered67]

Thanks a lot! I appreciate all the help!

[common_goblin]

Hi

First of all just wanted to say thanks heaps for TypingLabel - made my little typewriter class very ashamed.

I'm having some problems with the type speed when including new lines in my text. When I include new lines I seem to get sem-random pauses just after it, and sometimes I get characters cut off at the end (stops typing before it reaches the end of the string).

I'm able to reproduce it in the demo - by changing StringBuilder text in the method createTypingLabel() to:

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      final StringBuilder text = new StringBuilder()
         .append("this is the first line")
         .append(System.lineSeparator())
         .append("there is a second line right here")
         .append(System.lineSeparator())
         .append("of course there is a third line too")
         .append(System.lineSeparator())
         .append("fourth line - almost at the end")
         .append(System.lineSeparator())
         .append("this is the final line");

The same problem exists when using "\n" instead of System.lineSeparator().

I'm wondering if this is a bug or if I'm just doing something incorrectly? Or if there's a workaround?

I also seem to be getting garbled glyphs when I use a font over a certain font size (around 90, but it depends on the font - I'm using Hiero to generate bitmap fonts). I guess it sounds like what wizered67 was describing here - though I can't view the linked image anymore (can post a screenshot if it's helpful).

[wizered67]

Common_goblin, I can answer part of your question from my experience with this. The delays after newline characters is actually part of the default configuration. You can fix it by doing TypingConfig.INTERVAL_MULTIPLIERS_BY_CHAR.put ("\n", 0). By default it is given a very long delay!

[common_goblin]

Thanks so much! I can't believe I missed that, it's so obvious...

Speed is perfect now.

Thanks again!

[wizered67]

Hey RafaSKB, just wondering if you've made any progress on the fixes? No rush though!

[RafaSKB]

Version 1.0.5 is now available!

Changes:
- Added new SICK effect.
- Fixed nasty bug causing effects to affect the wrong glyphs after line breaks due to line wraps not being accounted for.
- Added support for custom effect tokens.
- API Addition: Added registerEffect and unregisterEffect methods to TypingConfig.

Check out the project on Github: https://github.com/rafaskb/typing-label

[RafaSKB]

Version 1.0.6 is now available!

Changes:
- Fixed bug causing glyphs to appear completely out of place.

Took me a while to finally solve this issue that was reported many times in this thread and on Github, hopefully the bug is long gone by now. Huge thanks to the community for detecting and debugging it!

Check out the project on Github: https://github.com/rafaskb/typing-label