pgimeno wrote: ↑Wed Oct 09, 2019 6:23 pm Use / instead of \

Oops. That was silly

Hello! It's quite weird for me, but when I'm setting the new font but I cannot import the font from a folder, I need to type the name only. If that file doesn't exists in the project folder, game will crash. local myFont = love.graphics.newFont( "fonts\opensans.ttf", 14 ) What should I do ...

Very good. One thing you can add in "Execute" option is this at the begging: It will save the project.

MrFariator wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 11:25 am Any of these methods work.

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-- all print 4
local str = "asdf"
print(#str)
print(string.len(str))
print(str:len())

This page lists the available string methods.

Thank you! Didn't know about the hashtag.

local myText = [[this is where my text goes and it will handle linebreaks]] function love.draw () love.graphics.print(myText, 10, 10) end One thing to keep in mind is that all contents between [[]] will be caught, so it will also take the indentation into account if present. Example: function love....

Hey, is there a way to get a string length?
Like this:

ivan wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 4:30 am Also, you can use real line breaks with the [[ ]] operator.

Really? And how to use them? Post an example please.

pgimeno wrote: ↑Sat Oct 05, 2019 8:52 pm What's wrong with

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"\n"

itself?

This works for me:

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function love.draw(dt)
    love.graphics.print( "First of all:\n  1. Blah Blah Blah\n  2. Blah Blah Blah" )
end

WHAT !? I really had no idea because I'm new at LUA

Well, I guess topic is solved =P

Hey guys, do you know a way to create a linebreak like in C++ ( "\n" or std:endl ) for example? function love.draw(dt) love.graphics.print( "First of all: " .. endline .. " 1. Blah Blah Blah" .. endline .. " 2. Blah Blah Blah" ) end This would be much easier f...