Markdown

[median coral]

Any chance of a markdown function?

var $string1
var $string2
var $string3
$string1 = markdown_text("# Some Title")
$string2 = markdown_text("- This is a bullet point")
$string3 = markdown_text("**This is Bold**")```

[shadow oasis]

for screens?
not really...
very limited font

[fathom mica]

Yeah.. the fonts are really limited.. do we even have capital letters?
It almost looks like the font rendering was built from complete scratch 😇

would be interesting (yet terrifying from a dev perspective) to have the capacity for multiple fonts and have more diversity; however, the pixel count would get large.

I kind of really like the low-level pixel stuff, I think it's part of the appeal, so in a way, I think that the fonts being as limited as they are is an ok tradeoff.

[loud horizon]

You could always roll your own font renderer 😅

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/578586360336875520/930127931794128906/unknown.png?ex=675d01e3&is=675bb063&hm=b8d15c8fe1ca444b884bbdf072530a9a8d89726b3506f2efaf42e68eb9647235&

Convert to hexadecimal (or whatever you prefer, for easier storage) and draw the individual pixels (rectangles) in the appropriate order

[night holly]

There's also the screen_copy solution by making an atlas on another screen and copying the letters lol

[median coral]

The font can be manipulated though, such as re-drawing the text slightly offset on the x-plane can make your font look "bold" for example.

We could do this ourselves inside of xenon code with a preg_match function. But it would be far less load if this was something C++ handled itself instead of adding overhead through xenon code.

[night holly]

We don't really like the idea of taking time to implement a feature that we know in advance will be barely usable because the result will be poor, it's like the times when people asked to have a screen_copy with 360° rotation support. Can we do it? Yes. Is it good? Not really.

There are still two solutions, as you mentioned: Xenoncode or waiting for the SDK to try it yourself

[median coral]

Any chance of a preg_match function?

[night holly]

Is find() not enough for you? For what purpose?

I already know that preg_match is much more powerful, but I am looking for its utility in the context of use with Archean/Xenoncode