TextDisplayAddText

This function adds a textitem to a textdisplay. This allows any observers of the textdisplay to see the textitem.

Syntax

void textDisplayAddText ( textdisplay displayToAddTo, textitem itemToAdd )

Required Arguments

• displayToAddTo: The textdisplay to add the textitem to.
• itemToAdd: The textitem to add to the display.

Example

-- Create a text display.
myTextDisplay = textCreateDisplay ()
-- Add a player as an observer, i.e. this player will see all text items that are on this display
textDisplayAddObserver ( myTextDisplay, aPlayer )
-- Create a new text item with the text 'Hello World' and a priority of 'low' and colored red.
myTextItem = textCreateTextItem ( "Hello World", 0.5, 0.5, "low", 255, 0, 0, 0, 1.0 )
-- Add the newly created text item to the display
textDisplayAddText ( myTextDisplay, myTextItem )

See Also

• textCreateDisplay
• textCreateTextItem
• textDestroyDisplay
• textDestroyTextItem
• textDisplayAddObserver
• textDisplayAddText
• textDisplayGetObservers
• textDisplayIsObserver
• textDisplayRemoveObserver
• textDisplayRemoveText
• textItemGetColor
• textItemGetPosition
• textItemGetPriority
• textItemGetScale
• textItemGetText
• textItemSetColor
• textItemSetPosition
• textItemSetPriority
• textItemSetScale
• textItemSetText