Irrlicht Engine

I'm trying to add some custom text to a billboard, so the user can change what it says. I really can't work out how to do this, or even how to explain it, so i have a picture to explain what i'm trying to do.

This is from Garry's Mod, the text in the bill is changable.



Any ideas folks?

Thanks in advance.

use the scene manager to add a billboard text scene node (probably) and then use functions from the scene collision manager (use shown in the collision tutorial) to detect a mouse click on the billboard and then you can handle putting different text in it.

Ah, i'm so stoopid, it didnt even occour to me that there would be a text based billboard. Durrr.

Thanks!

Quick related question,

THe textbillboard needs a const wchar_t. I have an irr::c8, how can i convert an irr::c8 to a const wchar_t? i tryed a cast like
but it doesnt seem to work? :S Sometimes it returns "0" depending on what the string is.

c8 cstr = "hello";
core::stringw wstr(cstr);

core::stringw::c_str() returns a wchar_t* for you

JP wrote:c8 cstr = "hello";
core::stringw wstr(cstr);

core::stringw::c_str() returns a wchar_t* for you

You're a bloody legend! Thank you!