0000286: GetCharPosition

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0000286	Gameplay + OpenGL	[All Projects] Feature	public	2017-02-17 07:13	2017-02-17 07:48

Reporter	Major Cooke
Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	resolved	Resolution	won't fix

Summary	0000286: GetCharPosition
Description	(String).GetCharPosition(int pos) Say for example I have a string myString containing the word "choir". myString.GetCharPosition(1) would return the x/y screen coordinates of the 'h' in choir. myString.GetCharPosition(2) returns 'o', etc. Useful if you want to draw a different color over that particular letter to indicate the menu shortcut key, for example, so users can push it and go straight to it.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2017-02-17 07:13	Major Cooke	New Issue
2017-02-17 07:48	Graf Zahl	Status	new => resolved
2017-02-17 07:48	Graf Zahl	Resolution	open => won't fix
2017-02-17 07:48	Graf Zahl	Note Added: 0000636

Graf Zahl 2017-02-17 07:48 administrator ~0000636	This would pretty much cut us off from future improvements of the font system, like TrueType support, so I have to ask you to do it inside the system with formatting characters that can be safely transitioned to different types of fonts. Even now you can run into the trap of incorrectly overlapping text.