Change action text area in different scenes

Hey there

Is there a way to change the action text area from a rectangular display at the bottom of the screen (default) to display it relative to the cursor in some screens?

Kind regards
Sebastian

I take it you didn't check the data structure page on the wiki?

game.ActionTextRect is apparently unscriptable. If that just means that updating it will not get stored in the save file, or it needs the scene reloading to show changes or it's not scriptable in general, I don't know.

I must confess that i didnt check the wiki, yes^^

Thought i have to add extra interfaces and add an action text area there, etc... Wasn't sure whats best practice here...

I will try to do as you mentioned. Seems to be the easiest way.

One more thing:
Can i positionate the text which is drawn at thw cursor relative to it?
I want it to be (nearly) centered below the cursor instead of its normal place...

No I don't think so, but you could probably use the display object text or a background narration text in a loop & use Lua to force the position of that & the string part of a value for inputting the text into. Clear the text to make it empty. It's just an idea out of my (currently half asleep) mind.

If nothing helps i will create special cursors with predefined texts inside the cursor graphic...

But first: testing and stuff...

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@devs : By the way changing the relative position of the actiontext to the cursor would be a great feature

Yeah it would be nice. We recently tried displaying text at cursor, but for some reason it's pushed really far over to the right of the cursor. Maybe the offset is based on the width of the entire cursor sprite?

"Maybe the offset is based on the width of the entire cursor sprite?"

I would guess so.

We had quite a wide background amount as one of the cursors (exit) used to have a fairly large & overly complicated animation. We changed that recently though, so I might use XnConvert to crop into the animation frames for all of the cursors.