Help with formspecs

[MineYoshi]

I would like to get some help from you about coding Formspecs.
I would be very thankful if you could give some examples about launching a formspec with a craftitem, because i'm having some issues about figuring out how to do so.
Thanks.

[azekill_DIABLO]

http://dev.minetest.net/formspec#Examples

this should already help you a bit :D

[rubenwardy]

also see https://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding ... specs.html

Formspecs are a series of "elements" each element has a purpose, such as setting the size of a window or placing a GUI component such as a button.

Formspecs are rather disgusting and badly designed. They're fiddly to place, and they don't respond will to changing screen resolutions.

[azekill_DIABLO]

Formspecs are rather disgusting and badly designed. They're fiddly to place, and they don't respond will to changing screen resolutions.

i couldn't agree more, they are hidous

[MineYoshi]

How can i do something similar to "textarea", but without the option of text input. I just want a block showing up some text, with weight and height. I've tried "label", but it just makes the text go plain.

[TumeniNodes]

anyone looked into adding support for svg for formspecs?
don't know if it would be viable or makes sense? : /
https://github.com/memononen/nanosvg

and requires this http://www.glfw.org/

[azekill_DIABLO]

for your text on cards:

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label[X,Y;label]

[azekill_DIABLO]

actually, have no idea how to do a multiline label. or yes i have an idea but it requires a real big work.

[Nathan.S]

Multiline text is done with

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textarea[4.3,0;4,2;;Your text here, or variable;]'

[azekill_DIABLO]

thanks, but we talk about something that you can’t edit :)

[Nathan.S]

textarea isn't editable in the fashion I explained. I use it in my autostore mod: https://github.com/NathanSalapat/autost ... it.lua#L82
It pulls text from a field, hence the variable being used, but you could just as easily put in your own text directly. On the vending machine the text can't be changed once saved, it just displays, much like the text on the menu screens.

[azekill_DIABLO]

oh, okay, sorry. But is it doable in CSM?

[Nathan.S]

I have no idea, I've never used any CSM yet.

[azekill_DIABLO]

:D

[Tmanyo]

If you are looking to make scrollable paragraphs without needing to use a textarea which requires using arrow keys to go up and down, or without using a scrollbar element which is tricky to use for big bodies of text, you can use a textlist where commas act as newlines. The downside is that if you don't know the body of text and it happens to have a comma in it, it will send the rest of the text to the newline. Also, if you didn't know the text you would have to use a function to wrap the text to the next line after a certain amount of characters. That is achievable by using this function: My wrap text function. It would require minor touches such as replacing the \n with , so that it works for the form and replacing the core function name. On another note, some formspec elements in the API don't seem to work so are pretty much garbage kind of like the whole system.

A multiline label is also pretty simple from what I have done in the past.

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"label[X,Y;label text label text \n label text label text]"

[azekill_DIABLO]

okay, cool thank you!