New line in expression editor?

11clock

I'm trying to display text to look like this:

"Stock:
[game.steel_stock]"

However, I'm not sure how to do this. I have to use the expression editor in order to show the variable, and the expression editor ignores the new lines. I've tried this:

"Stock:"..
game.steel_stock
The expression editor ignored the new line and placed everything on one line.

Then I tried this:

"Stock:
"..game.steel_stock
I got "Invalid Expression."

So how do I display the text the way I want to?

tenrdrmer

Hey there you can actually do it. it is just a bit tricky to get it right.

For Your Example this would be the code to use.

"Stock: \n".. game.Steel_Stock

the important thing is \n to get the new line, and to get a space between the typed out words within your Quotes you use option+space.

Hope this helps.

BackUpAndDown

Thats pretty nifty. Has anyone ever posted a list of display text commands like these before?

tenrdrmer

No, I don't think I have ever seen anything but this ever mentioned as commands we can use to be honest. I went ahead and made a demo showing its use in a much longer form.

http://gamesalad.com/game/45451

Its downloadable in GameSalad. the online thing is not loading for me right now. seems several people are having the same issue. http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=33362

Rob2

BackUpAndDown said:
Thats pretty nifty. Has anyone ever posted a list of display text commands like these before?

The whole subject of multi line text has been covered frequently but unless you use google to search the forum you might not find it.

Synthesis did a great post on the subject but the web has eaten most of it.
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=10507

This is probably the best of the rest as it points you in the right direction
http://gamesalad.com/forums/topic.php?id=10483#post-76695 (no surprise to see that coming from ORBZ) for further investigation ->

http://itee.uq.edu.au/~comp2303/Leslie_C_ref/C/FUNCTIONS/escape.html

many of which work .

11clock

I got the new lines to work. The stock market game is going great so far and I'm surprised how quickly I can make a table game! Already 2 days and I got the main game working. Now I just need to get it to actually end and add a store where you can purchase powerups between games using the money you earned.