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   demetriusb
   Member

   How does one create multiple lines of text in Cocos?

   I know how to do a single line of text:

   // create and initialize a CCLabel
   	CCLabel* label2 = [CCLabel labelWithString:@"This is my line of text." fontName:@"ITCAvantGardeStd-Bold.otf" fontSize:58];
   	label2.anchorPoint = ccp(0,0);
   	label2.position =  ccp( 0,300);
   	[aboutLayer addChild: label2 z:2];

   How do you do multiple lines of text?

   Demetrius

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Mark Sawicki
   Member

   Reference this thread. Just set the dimensions to fit your multiline text. I did it like this to show the cocos2d and chipmunk versions I'm using on a splash screen.
   

   NSString *fwv = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@ \n chipmunk v%@", cocos2dVersion(), [NSString stringWithCString:cpVersionString encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
   
   CCLabel *frameworkversions = [CCLabel labelWithString:fwv dimensions:CGSizeMake(200.0f, 35.0f) alignment:UITextAlignmentRight fontName:@"Courier New" fontSize:12];

   -Mark

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Joethemonkey101
   On probation

   label = [CCLabel labelWithString:@"TEXT" dimensions:CGSizeMake(x, y) alignment:UITextAlignmentCenter fontName:@"" fontSize:];

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   demetriusb
   Member

   Thanks so much!

   I see that \n will add a break to the line of text. Are there any other symbols that can be used for Bold, Color etc for specific

   words within the text? I'm thinking along the lines of HTML where you have different tags to customize different parts of the text

   within the string.

   Demetrius

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   Mark Sawicki
   Member

   Demetriusb,

   AFAIK, you'll have to break your text up into multiple labels, each with their own different formatting, as the operations you can use affect the entire label, like opacity or color, or whatever.

   -Mark

   Posted 1 year ago #
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   demetriusb
   Member

   Thanks Again for all your help.

   Posted 1 year ago #

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