I want the text to show in self-writing, like in Pokemon, Undertale, or any other game, but I have no idea of how to use the string functions to make it.
example:
texto = “hello”
“h”
“he”
“hel”
“hell”
“hello”
how can I do it?
s = [[this is a multiline
texto en lua]]
local tam = string.len(s)
local cantidad = 0
local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100)
–string.reverse(s)
timer.performWithDelay(50, function() cantidad = cantidad+1
displayed.text = s:sub(tam-cantidad, tam)
end, tam)
–I tried this but the text is written from end to start, and not viceversa
You just need to make a slight adjustment. I would also recommend that you assign custom anchorX and Y to the text so that it functions like in those other games you mentioned.
s = [[this is a multiline texto en lua]] local tam = string.len(s) local cantidad = 0 local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100) displayed.anchorX = 0 displayed.anchorY = 0 timer.performWithDelay(50, function() cantidad = cantidad+1 displayed.text = s:sub(1,cantidad) end, tam)Thank you so much!!! 
s = [[this is a multiline
texto en lua]]
local tam = string.len(s)
local cantidad = 0
local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100)
–string.reverse(s)
timer.performWithDelay(50, function() cantidad = cantidad+1
displayed.text = s:sub(tam-cantidad, tam)
end, tam)
–I tried this but the text is written from end to start, and not viceversa
You just need to make a slight adjustment. I would also recommend that you assign custom anchorX and Y to the text so that it functions like in those other games you mentioned.
s = [[this is a multiline texto en lua]] local tam = string.len(s) local cantidad = 0 local displayed = display.newText("", 100, 100) displayed.anchorX = 0 displayed.anchorY = 0 timer.performWithDelay(50, function() cantidad = cantidad+1 displayed.text = s:sub(1,cantidad) end, tam)Thank you so much!!!