imageTTFText problem

[Anon]

Hello,

I'm using imagePng and imageTTFText to create dynamically multilanguage menus.

It works fine but I've a problem when I want to split a text line which is too long.

I tried to use /n but it doesn't work.

I browsed through the archives but I found nothing.

Any idea to do this ?

Regards

Jean Pierre

[neville]

Why don't you print the extra text that does not fit on one line on fresh coordinates ?,.. to make it look like a new line!

[Anon]

You're right but in my case it's quite complicated.

The text for each menu item is stored in a text file and according to the selected language, I write the correct text (read from the text file) on a blank image.

The lenght of the text is variable upon the language (short in english, longer in french,italian,spanish and much longer in german...).

As the function called to generate the image and the text is common, I can't know where to break the line.

I'm going to try to use ereg to check for the /n character in the string and then print the second part with new coordinates.

[neville]

One way to do it would be to write the menus in the text files to be of the same length and if they need to be longer then have the remaining part separated by a special charachter, then when you need to print the menu all you have to do is split by that special character and for every element of the array have it printed on fresh coords.

Another way would be to divide your function into one, for generating the image and, the other to print on it,.... this way you can get the length of your string in whatever lang. and then generate an image of the appropriate size to contain the text... however this mayyyyy not be what you want incase the string is very long :-)

Hoping this helps,

Neville

[Anon]

I finally did something similar and it works.

thank you very much for yr help.

Jean pierre

[Anon]

hey, i think i read something like u have to use /n/r ... try this, dunno if it works...!