QfGIV text wrap

[doomlazer]

Anyone know where the character limit for wrapping strings to a newline in QfG4 lives? For Print statements you can set a custom "width:", but that doesn't work with messenger lines so a translator was asking how to change the default text width.

[lskovlun]

The talkWidth property on the Talker in question would seem to be it. I can't test just now.

[doomlazer]

Edit: Changing talkWidth works for talkers. Now I just need to find it for the non-talker default narrator lines. e.g., the first lines of the game in room 770 as the hero is waking up.

[lskovlun]

The narrator is an object too, and has a talkWidth property.

[doomlazer]

The narrator talkWidth is set to 0 and changing it does seem to work, but it turns out the translator wants to change narrator text dynamically per-line, which is difficult because most lines are called as sequences. I can't find a way to change per-line width in a way the translator could use easily. Oh, well.

[Kawa]

Yeah, you're not gonna do anything
like that. If you want to limit the
thing's width, you're probably gonna
be stuck with hard-wrapping it all.

[doomlazer]

The French seem awfully concerned about text wrap formatting in general. That's the second translator I know who has made a point of it.