generalize breakText

Nox · Post by **Nox** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:27 am

It would be a greate deal to generalize breakText because it is used in CGUIEditBox, CGUITable and CGUIStaticText. If it were generalized it would be easy to insert multiline in CTextSceneNode too.
May be creating a class or just a function like "String breakText(String in, s32 maxlinelength)" would make this ease to use. If a patch is needed i may be could create one (if you promise to adopt it to the next release

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rogerborg · Post by **rogerborg** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:15 am

We're always open to evaluating patches on their merits.

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:11 pm

I remember I discussed this one already once or twice in the chat with Bitplane. So yeah - it's certainly a good idea. I've even written once a function which did already go some way in that direction as part of another patch (http://www.michaelzeilfelder.de/irrlich ... wrap.patch). The breakText in there is already working with parameters and not with members to split it more from the guielement. But I think it should probably be an own class (CTextSplitter or something like that).

Nox · Post by **Nox** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:21 pm

@CuteAlien couldnt you rework the patch to add such a class? Because you allready developed such a method and it will be easy for you to create this class, wont it?

CuteAlien · Post by **CuteAlien** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 3:23 pm

Sure, I think I might find some time for that around x-mas 2011 :-)