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[LeDark Lua]

Hmm is this even posible? well if it is then I dont know how o do it, but mabie someone will help??
Well you get the Idea because of the title ( mabie ) but I will try my best to explain!

For example i have 16x8 rectangle and I draw a text inside it, when I hit the borders of the rectangle one of the texts chars will disapear.

[The_Cat]

Could you show us the code?

And maybe you can try drawing the rectangle and then the text?

Edited by The_Cat, 14 June 2015 - 05:06 PM.

[wieselkatze]

That for the most part is just maths - if you have a rectangle that is 16 pixels in width, your text obviously should be shortened after a length of 16.
If you take a look on this, you'll see some methods for string manipulation.
Example:

local yourString = "Hello"
local boxWidth = 16

yourString = yourString:sub( 1, boxWidth ) --# Same as string.sub( yourString, 1, boxWidth )

This would result in the string being shortened to a maximum length of 16 characters - if the text is shorter than that, it'll just stay the same length.

Edited by wieselkatze, 14 June 2015 - 05:30 PM.