[Suggestion] - BBCode Text

[WombatTurkey]

I was playing around with text and kind of had a light bulb moment. This might be a future feature planned for Lazer maybe? Not really sure, but I think the ability to use bbcode inside text would be an incredible addition to either one. 

For example:

    var style = { font: "bold 12px OpenSans", fill: "#fff", align: 'center', bbcode: true};
      text = game.add.text(0, 0, "Hello Phaser, I support [b]bold[/b] and [i]italic[/i] text  along with [url="http://google.com"]links[/url] and other [s]goodies[/s]", style);

What's everyone's thoughts on this? Yay or Nay?

[mattstyles]

Sounds like a userland solution rather than core, but the idea is good.

I'd strongly suggest markdown over bbcode as well.

[in mono]

What I know is that in the current implementation, it's rather impossible to have multiple styles within one instance of Phaser.Text. I'd be, however, happy to see that implemented in some form.

[3ddy]

Yay!

[rich]

Easier said than done I'm afraid. Text uses Canvas.fillText, which doesn't allow you to mix styles up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/fillText

So you'd need to literally render a bit of text, store the coordinates, swap the text style to bold, render the next part, and continue - the problem being there's no accurate way to figure out how far the text got in the previous part (especially with kerning and special type faces). It's a huge mess really

[WombatTurkey]

6 hours ago, rich said:

Easier said than done I'm afraid. Text uses Canvas.fillText, which doesn't allow you to mix styles up: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CanvasRenderingContext2D/fillText

So you'd need to literally render a bit of text, store the coordinates, swap the text style to bold, render the next part, and continue - the problem being there's no accurate way to figure out how far the text got in the previous part (especially with kerning and special type faces). It's a huge mess really

Bummer. But totally understandable, it does seem like a big fat mess. Oh well maybe in the future haha.