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   RelicaGames
   Member

   Hi, I'm trying to create a label with a line break in using \n. But I want to do this from a dictionary and that's not working, its just showing the \n in the text for the label.

   Basically the same problem as in this post:
   Other Post

   However no one had a solution in that post for getting the \n to work from a dictionary, so I was wondering if anyone else can think of anything? I'm wondering why it wouldn't work in the first place?

   Basically I want to have lots of entries in the dictionary like this:
   keyName = @"Title \n Lots of text...."

   So then I want to display the Title, have the line break, and then the rest of the text, which would become multiline because I use the dimensions: alignment: version of the label.

   The only other way I can think of doing this is by turning the dictionary of strings into one of arrays, each of which including the title and text as separate strings. But I'd rather not have to do this if I can find a way to get the \n working!

   So any help is appreciated!

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   RelicaGames
   Member

   Ok found another work around, I did this instead:
   

   NSString *info = [dictionary objectForKey:key];
   NSArray  *strings = [info componentsSeparatedByString:@"_"];
   if ([strings count] >= 2)//makes sure the array has 2 or more strings in, other will get an error!
   	info = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@\n%@",[strings objectAtIndex:0],[strings objectAtIndex:1]];

   So now all I need to do is write my information like this:
   Title_Lots of text here

   But would still be interesting to know why using \n doesn't work from a dictionary?

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   skyhawk
   Member

   Because the dictionary stores it as the literal "\n", and not as character '\n'.

   There are better ways to do what you're doing. I recommend checking out http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/forum/topic/16242 for the simplest solution.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   RelicaGames
   Member

   Thanks for the reply, it's good to know why being in a dictionary affects it! Thanks for the link as well, but I don't see how that forum post helps. I'm using CCLabelTTF, so already have an aligned, word wrapped label. The only problem was trying to use a string from a dictionary that had a line break in it. I think for this, my above solution works fine, and is nice and simple for my purpose. But thanks anyway for your reply.

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   skyhawk
   Member

   oops, yeah I didn't see that you wanted to force it! Then yes, your solution works just fine.

   The only reason this comes up is because I did nearly the exact same thing in my game, but then realized it would make it impossible to localize =)

   Posted 11 months ago #
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   abrarssdd
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