fphiladelphia wrote:

Charles12310 wrote:

Support for text displaying. The workaround is very complicated and difficult, and it's not just something like this:

define write (string) at x:(x):y(y) with size: (s)
hide
set size to (s)%
go to x:(x)y:(y)
set [letter v] to [0]
repeat (length of (string))
change [letter v] by (1)
change x by (5)
switch costume to (letter (letter) of (string))
stamp
end

It requires more work than that for a very accurate text engine.

I do think that this should be a pen block instead:

write text [] at x: () y: () with size: () :: pen

Please don’t necropost

Necroposting is OK if it adds to the conversation. Generally you can't necro on Suggestions because you can always discuss the suggestion more, unless it's been added or has since been rejected.

no support, just make a sprite for it.

I-Iz-A-Litten wrote:

no support, just make a sprite for it.

If you are talking about creating a sprite and then putting text, then I agree.

If it's about writing text by block, or whatever other users say, then it would require a lot of scripting.

Charles12310 wrote:

I-Iz-A-Litten wrote:

no support, just make a sprite for it.

If you are talking about creating a sprite and then putting text, then I agree.

If it's about writing text by block, or whatever other users say, then it would require a lot of scripting.

This block would be for displaying dynamically made text on the screen. It could be used to add captions to the bottom of your project instead of just having speech bubbles pop-up out of sprites.

Charles12310 wrote:

I-Iz-A-Litten wrote:

no support, just make a sprite for it.

If you are talking about creating a sprite and then putting text, then I agree.

If it's about writing text by block, or whatever other users say, then it would require a lot of scripting.

I'm talking about the bolded one

Support. For beginners, this would be a lot easier to use rather than having to make a text engine.

must be pen

write[text] at [x] [y]  [size] [color]  [font]::stack pen

ok!

Support, but instead of overflowing to invisible space, it should increase the height and width of the textbox to fill visible space.

Support for reasons listed above.

semi–support. you can use workarounds, but i would like it to be simple, but it just seems troublesome to me.
(oops, i'm sorry for necroposting)

Support!

the blocks as they are have too many inputs compared to every other block, it might not even fit in the block list.
it's a good idea on paper, but it's not a good solution. no support.

I support that. Here, I made some blocks that could be used for the sprite.

set text to [Hello world!]::looks
set color to [#FF0000]::looks
set font to [Arial v]::looks
set background color to [#FF0000]::looks
set font size to [18]::looks

Support, many Scratchers use text engines in their projects, so this would be convenient to add to the pen extension.

Since I posted a topic that turned out to be a duplicate of this one, I'll just post my suggestion here again:

set text style [sans-serif v] :: pen
set text size (12) pt :: pen
set text color [#ABCDEF] :: pen
set text alignment [left v] :: pen
draw text [hello world] at x: () y: () :: pen

LuckyLucky7 wrote:

Support, many Scratchers use text engines in their projects, so this would be convenient to add to the pen extension.

This is exactly why I made a topic about the suggestion in the first place. Having blocks made specifically for rendering text would be incredibly useful for many types of projects, especially ones that involve constantly changing numbers, such as clicker games.
As I said in my original post, Scratch 3.0 runs on HTML, so I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to add this feature.

-Multinia- wrote:

Since I posted a topic that turned out to be a duplicate of this one, I'll just post my suggestion here again:

set text style [sans-serif v] :: pen
set text size (12) pt :: pen
set text color [#ABCDEF] :: pen
set text alignment [left v] :: pen
draw text [hello world] at x: () y: () :: pen

What would the text alignment do? Would it make the draw text start at a different point? If so, it seems kind of confusing to word it like that. It could be replaced by a text width block which would allow more possibilities than the text alignment block. It would be harder to make right/center alignment, but it would add better word wrapping potential too.

Also, if this is part of the pen extension, there is no need for the text color block as it would be a duplicate of set pen color. Text size could also be replaced by set pen size, but that would probably be confusing. I would suggest the pen size not effect the text weight either.

set text style [sans-serif v] :: pen
set text size (12) pt :: pen
draw text [hello world] at x: () y: () :: pen
width of [] ::pen ring

There would be problems with this and bitmap as the rendered text would be pixelated. What if this was implemented as a new extension, but it added a new svg pen layer for text?

Support. I have to have an orange background behind the main variable in my clicker games. Also I would love this to be possible:

when green flag clicked
forever
draw text (Points)::pen
erase all::pen
end

Support! I always have to look for a text engine, and some of them don't work.

Now more messages are conveyed.

Speak [Text]:: pen stack