BBCode in RichTextLabel

Einführung

Label nodes are great for displaying basic text, but they have limits. If you want to change the color of the text, or its alignment, that change affects all of the text in the Label node. You can't have only one part of the text be one color, or only one part of the text be centered. To get around this limitation you would use a RichTextLabel.

RichTextLabel allows the display of complex text markup in a Control. It has a built-in API for generating the markup, but can also parse a BBCode.

Note that the BBCode tags can also be used, to some extent, in the XML source of the class reference.

BBCode verwenden

For uniformly formatted text you can write in the "Text" property, but if you want to use BBCode markup you should use the "Text" property in the "Bb Code" section instead (bbcode_text). Writing to this property will trigger the parsing of your markup to format the text as requested. Before this happens, you need to toggle the "Enabled" checkbox in the "Bb Code" section (bbcode_enabled).

../../_images/bbcodeText.png

For example, BBCode [color=blue]blue[/color] would render the word "blue" with a blue color.

../../_images/bbcodeDemo.png

You'll notice that after writing in the BBCode "Text" property the regular "Text" property now has the text without the BBCode. While the text property will be updated by the BBCode property, you can't edit the text property or you'll lose the BBCode markup. All changes to the text must be done in the BBCode parameter.

Bemerkung

For BBCode tags such as [b] (bold) or [i] (italics) to work you must set up custom fonts for the RichTextLabel node first.

Referenz

Befehl Tag Beschreibung
bold [b]{text}[/b] zeigt {text} in Fettdruck
italics [i]{text}[/i] zeigt {text} kursiv
underline [u]{text}[/u] zeigt {text} unterstrichen
strikethrough [s]{text}[/s] zeigt {text} durchgestrichen
code [code]{text}[/code] Makes {text} monospace.
center [center]{text}[/center] zeigt {text} zentriert
right [right]{text}[/right] zeigt {text} rechtsbündig
fill [fill]{text}[/fill] Makes {text} fill width.
indent [indent]{text}[/indent] Increase indent level of {text}.
url [url]{url}[/url] zeigt {url} als solche
url (ref) [url=<url>]{text}[/url] Makes {text} reference <url>.
image [img]{path}[/img] Insert image at resource {path}.
resized image [img=<width>]{path}[/img] Insert image at resource {path} using <width> (keeps ratio).
resized image [img=<width>x<height>]{path}[/img] Insert image at resource {path} using <width> & <height>.
font [font=<path>]{text}[/font] verwende eigenen Zeichensatz bei <Pfad> für {text}.
color [color=<code/name>]{text}[/color] ändert {text} Farbe; verwende Name oder #Format, z.B. #ff00ff
table [table=<number>]{cells}[/table] erzeugt eine Tabelle mit <Anzahl> Spalten
cell [cell]{text}[/cell] fügt Zellen mit dem {text} zur Tabelle hinzu

vorhandene Farbnamen

Liste der gültigen Farbnamen für den [color=<name>] Tag:

  • aqua
  • black
  • blue
  • fuchsia
  • gray
  • green
  • lime
  • maroon
  • navy
  • purple
  • red
  • silver
  • teal
  • white
  • yellow

Hexadezimale Farbcodes

Für blickdichte RGB Farben wird jeder gültige 6-stellige Hexadezimalcode unterstützt, z.B. [color=#ffffff]white[/color].

Für transparente RGB Farben kann jeder 8-stellige Hexadezimalcode genutzt werden, z.B. [color=#88ffffff]translucent white[/color]. In diesem Fall beachte, dass der Alpha-Kanal die erste Komponente des Farbcodes ist, nicht die letzte.

Image vertical offset

You use a custom font for your image in order to align it vertically.

  1. Erstellen einer BitmapFont Ressource
  2. Set this bitmap font with a positive value for the ascent property, that's your height offset
  3. Set the BBCode tag this way: [font=<font-path>][img]{image-path}[/img][/font]

Animationseffekte

BBCode can also be used to create different text animation effects. Five customizable effects are provided out of the box, and you can easily create your own.

Wellen

../../_images/wave.png

Wave makes the text go up and down. Its tag format is [wave amp=50 freq=2][/wave]. amp controls how high and low the effect goes, and freq controls how fast the text goes up and down.

Tornado

../../_images/tornado.png

Tornao makes the text move around in a circle. Its tag format is [tornado radius=5 freq=2][/tornado]. radius is the radius of the circle that controls the offset, freq is how fast the text moves in a circle.

Schütteln

../../_images/shake.png

Shake makes the text shake. Its tag format is [shake rate=5 level=10][/shake]. rate controls how fast the text shakes, level controls how far the text is offset from the origin.

Ein- und Aus-Blenden

../../_images/fade.png

Fade creates a fade effect over the text that is not animated. Its tag format is [fade start=4 length=14][/fade]. start controls the starting position of the falloff relative to where the fade command is inserted, length controls over how many characters should the fade out take place.

Regenbogen

../../_images/rainbow.png

Rainbow gives the text a rainbow color that changes over time. Its tag format is [rainbow freq=0.2 sat=10 val=20][/rainbow]. freq is the number of full rainbow cycles per second, sat is the saturation of the rainbow, val is the value of the rainbow.

Eigene BBCode Tags und Texteffekte

You can extend the RichTextEffect resource type to create your own custom BBCode tags. You begin by extending the RichTextEffect resource type. Add the tool prefix to your GDScript file if you wish to have these custom effects run within the editor itself. The RichTextLabel does not need to have a script attached, nor does it need to be running in tool mode.

There is only one function that you need to extend: _process_custom_fx(char_fx). Optionally, you can also provide a custom BBCode identifier simply by adding a member name bbcode. The code will check the bbcode property automatically or will use the name of the file to determine what the BBCode tag should be.

_process_custom_fx

This is where the logic of each effect takes place and is called once per character during the draw phase of text rendering. This passes in a CharFXTransform object, which holds a few variables to control how the associated character is rendered:

  • identity specifies which custom effect is being processed. You should use that for code flow control.
  • relative_index tells you how far into a given custom effect block you are in as an index.
  • absolute_index tells you how far into the entire text you are as an index.
  • elapsed_time ist die Gesamtzeit, die der Texteffekt ausgeführt wurde.
  • visible will tell you whether the character is visible or not and will also allow you to hide a given portion of text.
  • offset ist eine versetzte Position relativ zu der Stelle, an der das angegebene Zeichen unter normalen Umständen gerendert werden soll.
  • color ist die Farbe eines bestimmten Zeichens.
  • Finally, env is a Dictionary of parameters assigned to a given custom effect. You can use get() with an optional default value to retrieve each parameter, if specified by the user. For example [custom_fx spread=0.5 color=#FFFF00]test[/custom_fx] would have a float spread and Color color parameters in its ` env` Dictionary. See below for more usage examples.

The last thing to note about this function is that it is necessary to return a boolean true value to verify that the effect processed correctly. This way, if there's a problem with rendering a given character, it will back out of rendering custom effects entirely until the user fixes whatever error cropped up in their custom effect logic.

Hier sind einige Beispiele eigener Effekte:

Geist

tool
extends RichTextEffect
class_name RichTextGhost

# Syntax: [ghost freq=5.0 span=10.0][/ghost]

# Define the tag name.
var bbcode = "ghost"

func _process_custom_fx(char_fx):
    # Get parameters, or use the provided default value if missing.
    var speed = char_fx.env.get("freq", 5.0)
    var span = char_fx.env.get("span", 10.0)

    var alpha = sin(char_fx.elapsed_time * speed + (char_fx.absolute_index / span)) * 0.5 + 0.5
    char_fx.color.a = alpha
    return true

Pulse

tool
extends RichTextEffect
class_name RichTextPulse

# Syntax: [pulse color=#00FFAA height=0.0 freq=2.0][/pulse]

# Define the tag name.
var bbcode = "pulse"

func _process_custom_fx(char_fx):
    # Get parameters, or use the provided default value if missing.
    var color = char_fx.env.get("color", char_fx.color)
    var height = char_fx.env.get("height", 0.0)
    var freq = char_fx.env.get("freq", 2.0)

    var sined_time = (sin(char_fx.elapsed_time * freq) + 1.0) / 2.0
    var y_off = sined_time * height
    color.a = 1.0
    char_fx.color = char_fx.color.linear_interpolate(color, sined_time)
    char_fx.offset = Vector2(0, -1) * y_off
    return true

Matrix

tool
extends RichTextEffect
class_name RichTextMatrix

# Syntax: [matrix clean=2.0 dirty=1.0 span=50][/matrix]

# Define the tag name.
var bbcode = "matrix"

func _process_custom_fx(char_fx):
    # Get parameters, or use the provided default value if missing.
    var clear_time = char_fx.env.get("clean", 2.0)
    var dirty_time = char_fx.env.get("dirty", 1.0)
    var text_span = char_fx.env.get("span", 50)

    var value = char_fx.character

    var matrix_time = fmod(char_fx.elapsed_time + (char_fx.absolute_index / float(text_span)), \
                           clear_time + dirty_time)

    matrix_time = 0.0 if matrix_time < clear_time else \
                  (matrix_time - clear_time) / dirty_time

    if value >= 65 && value < 126 && matrix_time > 0.0:
        value -= 65
        value = value + int(1 * matrix_time * (126 - 65))
        value %= (126 - 65)
        value += 65
    char_fx.character = value
    return true

Dadurch werden einige neue BBCode-Befehle hinzugefügt, die wie folgt verwendet werden können:

[center][ghost]This is a custom [matrix]effect[/matrix][/ghost] made in
[pulse freq=5.0 height=2.0][pulse color=#00FFAA freq=2.0]GDScript[/pulse][/pulse].[/center]