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Phattee
Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Aug 17th, 2009, 4:42pm  
Hello, how do I make it so

Quote:
String b = "The dog \r went home.";
text(b, 0, 50);


prints as

Quote:
The dog
went home.


instead of


Quote:
The dog went home.


?
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jaylfk
Re: Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Reply #1 - Aug 17th, 2009, 10:09pm  
Like this.

Code:
PFont a0, a1;
  
void setup() 
{
  size(200, 200);
  background(102);
  a0 = loadFont("arial32.vlw");
  a1 = loadFont("arial32.vlw");
  textFont(a0, 32);
  textFont(a1, 32);
}

void draw() {
 String a0 = "The dog";
 String a1 = "went home.";
 text(a0, 0, 50);
 text(a1, 0, 100);
}
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NoahBuddy
Re: Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Reply #2 - Aug 17th, 2009, 10:20pm  
You could also use '\n' instead of '\r' for the next line character. Wink
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jaylfk
Re: Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Reply #3 - Aug 17th, 2009, 11:18pm  
I like to complicate simple things.  Roll Eyes

Code:
PFont a0;
  
void setup() 
{
  size(200, 200);
  background(102);
  a0 = loadFont("arial32.vlw");
  textFont(a0, 32);
}

void draw() {
 String a0 = "The dog\nwent home.";
 text(a0, 0, 50);
}
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NoChinDeluxe
Re: Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Reply #4 - Aug 18th, 2009, 6:44am  
Also, jaylfk, there is no need to have two fonts in your example. Both calls to text can use the same font. The only reason you would need two fonts is if each piece of text on the screen was to be drawn with two completely different fonts.
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Cedric
Re: Noob question: Inserting a carriage return
Reply #5 - Aug 18th, 2009, 7:34am  
or you can simply use a textbox as described in the example reference

PFont font;
font = loadFont("FFScala-Bold-12.vlw");
textFont(font);
String s = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.";
text(s, 15, 20, 70, 70);

http://processing.org/reference/text_.html
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