hey i wanted to know if scribble can help me do the next thing:

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Future questions can be asked in #juju___scribble

We have a setting up guide over here

https://www.jujuadams.com/Scribble/#/latest/setting-up

If you want a plug n play, you can swap out draw_text and draw_text_ext with draw_text_scribble and draw_text_scribble_ext

Other than that

The main change you'll need to make is removing string_copy and just getting the current text position and adding that to draw_text_scribble_ext

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is it possible to do what i wanted?

i heard with scribble its suppose to be easier

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Setting a colour for one part of the text blue and the rest white, yes it's possible

https://www.jujuadams.com/Scribble/#/latest/text-formatting

`"[c_blue]Bob[c_white]: Hey there everyone!"

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okay

thanks a lot!

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I want to clarify that this is important

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hm got an idea how i would need to do that?

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https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1098589952482226186/1098589953593716746/image.png?width=477&height=455

Remove this line

Use story[cur_story] in place of text_draw

draw_text_scribble_ext(margin, margin, story[cur_story], 1, char)

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on the next like it gives my a yellow sign saying text_draw only refrenced once

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^^^^

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ok

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i need to do it everywhere in the code?

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Yes

If you want to use scribble everywhere then yes

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do i also need to change draw_set_color?

also i cant seem to find draw_text

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Right

They have different arguments

draw_text_scribble_ext(margin, margin, story[cur_story], width, char)

https://www.jujuadams.com/Scribble/#/latest/quick-functions?id=draw_text_scribble_extx-y-string-width-charcount

One good thing is to double cross reference the docs over here too

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oh ok

also where did you see draw_text?

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wdym?

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you told me to replace draw_text

i cant seem to find it

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I said "you can swap out"

Not said that "you have to swap out"

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oh ok sorry for the confusion

draw_text_scribble_ext(width,choice_pos, text, -1, width);

whats wrong with this?

it prints it wrong in game

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https://manual.yoyogames.com/GameMaker_Language/GML_Reference/Drawing/Text/draw_text_ext.htm

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.

draw_text_ext(x, y, string, sep, w);
draw_text_scribble_ext(x, y, string, width, [charCount])

There's an argument difference

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i know i tried to use whats here

i didnt puit the arguments by the normal draw_text_ext

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So your x is width, your y is choice_pos, string is text, width is -1?

Where is charCount?

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i saw its optinal and thought i didnt need it

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From your code, it suggests that you're doing a typewriter effect

And as a disclaimer

Do not use a “string_copy() typewriter” with Scribble, an example being https://www.yoyogames.com/en/blog/coffee-break-tutorial-easy-typewriter-dialogue-gml. Instead, use the charCount argument to control how much text to draw.

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how do i use char count?

and also what arugments do you think i need to use then?

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charCount is your char variable

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1098589952482226186/1098592110808145990/image.png

So instead of doing this

You just plug in char straight into charCount

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are we talking about thwe third line?

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You don't have string_copy anymore so you're fine

But you'll have to do about the same for everything that's got a typewriter effect going on

In this case, this looks like choices

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this is how it looks like now

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So you don't need to have charCount

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with char after 1

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You don't need to change all of your arguments either

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so which arguments should i have i got confused

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draw_text_ext(x, y, string, sep, w);
draw_text_scribble_ext(x, y, string, width, [charCount])

Compare against these two

You don't need to change x/y/string

And you only need to remove sep

Get rid of it

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like this?

draw_text_scribble_ext(margin, choice_pos + prev_height, text, width);

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yes

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okay i see the problem

i removed the sep but the problem remains

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You're drawing it twice

And char needs to be at the end

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okay its all fixed but the typewriter effect is gone

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Are you still incrementing char

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no

i just deleted the first line

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No

You need to keep that

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okay so i dont get my mistake

char is at the end

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What is char being incremented as atm?

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can you elaborate a bit?

im not quite sure what do you mean

okay i found out the solution

im sorry for the trouble im just new to game development

thanks so much for the help