Drawing a string

[GargamelLeNoir]

Yep. I know it's shockingly basic, but I don't know how to do it. I didn't find a tutorial about it, I tried stealing this line from another mod : 

 

getTextManager():DrawString(500, 500, textToDisplay);

 

But it doesn't do anything. No exception thrown either. I've tried with other values (like half of the width/height of the screen, or 100/100), nothing.

Thanks again for any help, and sorry for probably missing something shamefully obvious.

[RoboMat]

Is textToDisplay a string?

[GargamelLeNoir]

I suppose so, I set it like this : 

local textToDisplay = "@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@";

I may not be entirely comfortable with the lack of variable typing in lua.

[RoboMat]

I may not be entirely comfortable with the lack of variable typing in lua.

 

It has it advantages.

 

Did you hook the whole function to the correct event? (Take a look at my coordinate viewer mod)

[GargamelLeNoir]

The function is overriding ISReadABook:perform, but I know that it is properly executed. It does other things, including showing logs on the console.

I'll check out the coordinate viewer tonight for clues.

[RoboMat]

Ahh that's your problem probably... You are trying to call a drawing function outside of the main "drawing" loop of the game and therefore it is ignored.

[GargamelLeNoir]

Well that's unfortunate... The deal is that I need to display something when the player is reading something, that's the whole gist of the mod I'm trying to make. Do you know how I could sidestep that issue?

[RoboMat]

The easiest solution would be to use player:Say('Text I want to say') ... that would display the text above the player's head like shouting.

Of course you could use the drawString() function with the event I used for the coordinate viewer (can't remember what it's called) and simply remove / hide the string after a while.

[GargamelLeNoir]

That sounds pretty good. Having the player talk won't alert zombies though will it?

[RoboMat]

That sounds pretty good. Having the player talk won't alert zombies though will it?

No, you'd need to set an attraction point for that

[GargamelLeNoir]

Works like a charm, thanks a lot RobotMat!

[RoboMat]

You are welcome