Author Topic: Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file  (Read 2001 times)

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Offline Fury

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Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file
How about a sexp that reads a text file and displays contents on-screen? Additional arguments would control how the text is displayed. For example, you could have vertically scrolling text at specific coordinates at fixed width and length.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file
Well, I'm not sure what it'd give us that subtitles and training messages don't, except I guess scrolling ability...

 

Offline Fury

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Re: Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file
Think of much larger amount of text, sort of like in-game fiction viewer. One could use it to display long credits at the end of campaign for example.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Re: Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file
I have a feeling it would be a ton of work for relatively specific gain.

  

Offline Goober5000

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Re: Suggestion for a sexp: read-text-file
I have a feeling it would be a ton of work for relatively specific gain.
This.

Plus, it can be done with existing sexps. :nod: