Newline from IGUIFont->draw()?

[sfncook]

Howdy, Can you print multiple lines of text with one call to the IGUIFont->draw() function? For instance:

[code]
core::stringw str;
str = L"Line #1 \n Line #2 \n Line #3";

gameFont->draw(
str.c_str(),
core::rect<s32>(
core::position2d<s32>( 0, 500 ),
core::dimension2d<s32>( 450,15 )),
video::SColor(255,255,255,255));
[/code]

This code basically ignores the newline characters. I would like to make an on screen text console. If this isn't the way to go, does anyone have any better ideas how to implement such a thing?

Thanks, chaps,

S.[code][/code]

[chaoslion]

i did it this way

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    irr::core::stringc buffer = "sum text\nline2\n";
    irr::core::array<irr::core::stringc> screen_buffer;
        irr::u32 start = 0;	
	irr::u32 i = 0;
	for(;i<buffer.size();i++) {
		
		//add next line
		if( buffer[i] == '\n' ) {
			screen_buffer.push_back(buffer.subString(start,i-start));
			start = i+1;
			continue;		
		}
	}
	//add the rest if the string
	if(start<buffer.size()) {
		screen_buffer.push_back(buffer.subString(start,i-start));
	}

        //now draw the screen_buffer array, line by line
        for(i=0;i<screen_buffer.size();i++) {		
	     y = fontScale*i;	
             drawStr(0,y,screen_buffer[i].c_str(),color,Font);	
        }