'guiSetText()' with two Colours

[FSXTim]

Hello,

I created a label, as you can see here:

uhrzeit3 = guiCreateLabel(0.1494,0.383,0.4689,0.0638,"",true,zeit_Window) 
guiSetFont(uhrzeit3,"default-bold-small") 

Colour: white

How can I do that 'London' is red? This doesn't work:

guiSetText(uhrzeit3, "Uhrzeit in #FF0000London:") 

Greets

[Castillo]

Labels don't support HEX codes, you can't do it.

Although, around the forums there was a function to make it color coded.

[FSXTim]

Do you know this function? If yes, could you please tell me about it?

Greets

Edited May 27, 2012 by Guest

[Castillo]

function guiCreateColorLabel( ax, ay, bx, by,str, bool, parent ) 
    local pat = "(.-)#(%x%x%x%x%x%x)" 
    local s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, 1 ) 
    local last = 1 
    local r,g,b 
    while s do 
        if cap == "" and col then r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) end 
        if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then 
            local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
            avc321 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
            if not r then r = 255 end 
            if not g then g = 255 end 
            if not b then b = 255 end 
            guiLabelSetColor( avc321,r,g,b ) 
            ax = ax + w 
            r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) 
        end 
        last = e + 1 
        s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, last ) 
    end 
    if last <= #str then 
        local cap = str:sub( last ) 
        local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
        local avc123 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
        guiLabelSetColor( avc123,r or 255,g or 255,b or 255 ) 
        return avc123 
    end 
end 

If that doesn't work, then search for "guiCreateColorLabel".

P.S: I didn't make that function.

[FSXTim]

Okay, forget it, my label will have the colour 'white'.

This is not my level!

But thanks, sir!

[Alpha]

You don't need to understand it, you can simply use that code.

[FSXTim]

But I have to change

function guiCreateColorLabel( ax, ay, bx, by,str, bool, parent ) 

to

function guiCreateColorLabel( 0.6639,0.383,0.1826,0.0638,"",true,zeit_Window) 

right?

Greets

[Alpha]

But don't change the function name itself.

Example:

--You use the function like this: 
guiCreateColorLabel( 0.6639,0.383,0.1826,0.0638,"",true,zeit_Window) 
  
--but define the function as it is: 
function guiCreateColorLabel( ax, ay, bx, by,str, bool, parent ) 
    local pat = "(.-)#(%x%x%x%x%x%x)" 
    local s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, 1 ) 
    local last = 1 
    local r,g,b 
    while s do 
        if cap == "" and col then r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) end 
        if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then 
            local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
            avc321 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
            if not r then r = 255 end 
            if not g then g = 255 end 
            if not b then b = 255 end 
            guiLabelSetColor( avc321,r,g,b ) 
            ax = ax + w 
            r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) 
        end 
        last = e + 1 
        s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, last ) 
    end 
    if last <= #str then 
        local cap = str:sub( last ) 
        local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
        local avc123 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
        guiLabelSetColor( avc123,r or 255,g or 255,b or 255 ) 
        return avc123 
    end 
end 

[FSXTim]

Okay, thanks!

But I don't understand it completely.

How would the script look like, if the text in the label is the following?

Time in [color=#FF0000]London[/color] 

'Time in' is white and 'London' is red.

Greets

[Alpha]

Do you know hex color codes?

guiCreateColorLabel( 0.6639,0.383,0.1826,0.0638,"#FFFFFFTime in #FF0000London",true,zeit_Window) 

[FSXTim]

No, I didn't know them!

No, just fun, but I didn't know if it is able to use hex color codes in this function.

Thanks!

Greets

[Alpha]

That's the point of the custom function.

[FSXTim]

Yea, you're right!

Still having a problem:

Error (line1): attempt to call glocal 'guiCreateColorLabel' (a nil value)

guiCreateColorLabel(0.1494,0.383,0.4689,0.0638,"#FFFFFFTime in #FF0000London",true,zeit_Window) 
  
function guiCreateColorLabel( ax, ay, bx, by,str, bool, parent ) 
    local pat = "(.-)#(%x%x%x%x%x%x)" 
    local s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, 1 ) 
    local last = 1 
    local r,g,b 
    while s do 
        if cap == "" and col then r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) end 
        if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then 
            local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
            avc321 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
            if not r then r = 255 end 
            if not g then g = 255 end 
            if not b then b = 255 end 
            guiLabelSetColor( avc321,r,g,b ) 
            ax = ax + w 
            r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) 
        end 
        last = e + 1 
        s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, last ) 
    end 
    if last <= #str then 
        local cap = str:sub( last ) 
        local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
        local avc123 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
        guiLabelSetColor( avc123,r or 255,g or 255,b or 255 ) 
        return avc123 
    end 
end 

Greets

[Wei]

guiCreateColorLabel(0.1494,0.383,0.4689,0.0638,"#FFFFFFTime in #FF0000London",true,uhrzeit3 ) 

Try

[Alpha]

The problem is, you're calling the function as soon as the script starts, and the script starts from up all the way down.

So it first meats your call to the function guiCreateColorLabel, while you haven't even defined it yet.

So you have to put the call for the function below the function declaring.

function guiCreateColorLabel( ax, ay, bx, by,str, bool, parent ) 
    local pat = "(.-)#(%x%x%x%x%x%x)" 
    local s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, 1 ) 
    local last = 1 
    local r,g,b 
    while s do 
        if cap == "" and col then r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) end 
        if s ~= 1 or cap ~= "" then 
            local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
            avc321 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
            if not r then r = 255 end 
            if not g then g = 255 end 
            if not b then b = 255 end 
            guiLabelSetColor( avc321,r,g,b ) 
            ax = ax + w 
            r,g,b = tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 1, 2 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 3, 4 ) ), tonumber( "0x"..col:sub( 5, 6 ) ) 
        end 
        last = e + 1 
        s, e, cap, col = str:find( pat, last ) 
    end 
    if last <= #str then 
        local cap = str:sub( last ) 
        local w = dxGetTextWidth( cap ) 
        local avc123 = guiCreateLabel( ax, ay, ax + w, by,cap,bool,parent ) 
        guiLabelSetColor( avc123,r or 255,g or 255,b or 255 ) 
        return avc123 
    end 
end 
  
guiCreateColorLabel(0.1494,0.383,0.4689,0.0638,"#FFFFFFTime in #FF0000London",true,zeit_Window) 

[FSXTim]

@blazy

This cannot work, because the label has to be on my window and 'uhrzeit3' is not my window.

@Alpha

No errors, but no the label sais that:

'Time in' 

'London' is missing!

Greets

[Alpha]

I think it's the function itself, might not be working correctly.

[FSXTim]

Okay, but thanks!

Greets