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pferft
Hi everyone,
I wonder how I could have a single character in a text within a label to be animated under one certain circumstance.
I have a RichTextLabel connected to some number- and a comma-button. Only one comma is possible, so entering one makes the comma-button “inactive”… it still registers tapping though, so in my func _on_Button_button_comma_pressed_while_disabled(): I can apply all kinds of “there’s-already-a-comma-written!”-reactions (like e. g. a rapidly blinking cursor).
Now I’d like the comma itself in the text to blink a couple of times when that function is triggered. Could I somehow find(‘,’) or get(“,”) and then maybe apply some Tween-animation or even bbcode? Or is there an easier way I just can’t think of?
_on_Button_button_comma_pressed_while_disabled():
text = my_rich_text_label.bbcode_text
text.replace(",","[custom_bbcode_tag],[/custom_bbcode_tag]")
#maybe then wait a little bit and replace back the comma so the animation stops
i dont think there is any built in function to do it, but you can create your own system using replace(text, ",", " ") to create the blink effect (replace , with an empty space), linked to a timer that will repeat this action a couple of time
thanks for your suggestions, I’m sure this is exactly what I’m looking for. The visible mentioned in the docs will be what I’m aiming at.
I already have several bbcode working in my RichTextLabel, including var templateAlwaysAllRight = "[right][color=blue]{alwaysAllRight}[/color][/right]" for some alignment. Now, when I’m adding e. g. text.replace(",","[color=green],[/color]"), entering 1,2 and then tapping the disabled , again, it leads to [right][color=blue]1,2[/color][/right] being displayd as text in my RichTextLabel…
This is about as far as my beginner-understanding goes at this point, so I wonder (and guess): two “separate” bbcodes can’t apply to the same object? So would I need to have them both combined in one? Or am I missing something else?
EDIT:
The docs describe in Custom BBCode tags (e. g.)
var bbcode = "ghost"
func _process_custom_fx(char_fx):
...
that can then be used as [ghost] ... [/ghost], but I don’t see how ghost is connected to the function (so how ghost would “know” its own variables). So I wonder how I can make [ghost],[/ghost] work (as [custom_bbcode_tag] in your example)?