HUD text map

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Jan 10 2016, 2:40 am
(See the best response by Ter13.)
I'm making a box in which I want the text that any NPC has to say it appears at the window. For example I talk to the NPC it opens the box(interface window) got this so far done. But the question is, Is there a way to put the maptext inside the map of the box?
Or if is possible to do it with a label instead of map, is there a way to update that text?



Jan 10 2016, 7:39 am
Best response
Yes on both counts.

Updating a label:
winset([player],"[label_id]","text=\"[text]\";")


Adding maptext to a secondary map:

obj/screen_text
    screen_loc = "[map_id]:[x],[y]"
    maptext_width = [width]
    maptext_height = [height]


Somewhere in your code to add the maptext object:
var/obj/screen_text/o = new()
o.maptext = "[text]"
[player].client.screen += o


You'll want to replace any [] brackets with the values you want.
Jan 10 2016, 6:14 pm
Thank you very much Ter13 :)