Borders in dxDrawText

[Sharingan]

Hello guys, I'm trying to do a HUD, but i got a little problem. I don't know how to add borders in Texts.

I'll show you some images:

I tried to do borders putting behind another dxdrawtext:

It looks like this without borders:

I want something like this:

Here's my simple code:

  
        dxDrawText(tostring (inclip),sWidth-414,sHeight-47,sWidth-369,sHeight-18,tocolor(127,127,127,255),1.0,"pricedown") 
        dxDrawText(tostring (ammo2),sWidth-375,sHeight-47,sWidth-272,sHeight-12,tocolor(255,255,255,255),1.0,"pricedown") 
  

Sorry for my bad english, I'm still learning.

[BinSlayer1]

well border is just the same text (usually black colored) 1-2 pixels to the right, then another one to the left, upwards and downwards of the original text

Borders come first as dxDrawTexts (since they're black) and the original text is the last one to be drawn (so it appears on top of the rest)

dxDrawText(--black colored, 2 pixels down from original text position--)

dxDrawText(--black colored, 2 pixels up from original text position--)

dxDrawText(--black colored, 2 pixels to the right from original text position--)

dxDrawText(--black colored, 2 pixels to the left from original text position --)

dxDrawText(--original text parameters--)

4 dxDraws for the border, 1 for the original text.

Hope I helped.

There's another way (simplier too). Check this out:

viewtopic.php?f=108&t=24262&hilit=textlib

[Maccer.]

As the guy above said, you can use textlib, but his manual way is incorrect and lacks some accuracy.

The correct way:

  
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 - 1, 100 - 1, 100 - 1, 100 - 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) -- black 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 + 1, 100 - 1, 100 + 1, 100 - 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 - 1, 100 + 1, 100 - 1, 100 + 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 + 1, 100 + 1, 100 + 1, 100 + 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 - 1, 100, 100 - 1, 100, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100 + 1, 100, 100 + 1,100, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100, 100 - 1, 100, 100 - 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100, 100 + 1, 100, 100 + 1, tocolor ( 0, 0, 0, 255 ) ) 
dxDrawText ( "a", 100, 100, 100, 100, tocolor ( 255, 255, 255, 255 ) ) -- white 
  

[Sharingan]

textlib? What is that?

Are there some libraries for MTA?

[qaisjp]

function dxDrawBorderedText(text, left, top, right, bottom, color, scale, font, alignX, alignY, clip, wordBreak,postGUI) 
    for oX = -1, 1 do -- Border size is 1 
        for oY = -1, 1 do -- Border size is 1 
                dxDrawText(text, left + oX, top + oY, right + oX, bottom + oY, tocolor(0, 0, 0, 255), scale, font, alignX, alignY, clip, wordBreak,postGUI) 
        end 
    end 
    dxDrawText(text, left, top, right, bottom, color, scale, font, alignX, alignY, clip, wordBreak, postGUI) 
end 

[AGENT_STEELMEAT]

This is a bit unneccesary, but I liked your solution so much that I went ahead and cleaned it up a bit.

You can now provide your own arguments for the outline size and outline color.

http://pyropaste.net/n7T30E114

[BinSlayer1]

Fedor_s, how is my way incorrect? Do that and you get your border lol..

[qaisjp]

Hehe, nice cleanup/

[Sharingan]

Thanks to everyone.