Is it possible to make a single word of a text object bold or italic like with html?

Klausewitz · September 30, 2013, 10:13am

Is something like this possible?

local myText = display.newText("", 0, 0, native.systemFont, 25) myText:setTextColor(0, 0, 0, 255); myText.text = "This [b]word[/b] should appear bold!";

Thanks in advance!

piotrz55 · September 30, 2013, 12:10pm

No

Helios · September 30, 2013, 2:51pm

Was wondering myself. What’s more baffling is you can’t adjust leading or kerning in a text area. How would you go about bolding then? Have two separate text objects?

piotrz55 · September 30, 2013, 3:32pm

Yes. There is no bold or italic option. Your whole font must be bold or italic but no way to mix like in normal text editor.

cyberparkstudios · September 30, 2013, 4:24pm

You could try this … although there are better ways, this would be fairly simple. You can build on this to handle spacing better and line wrap, etc… but it covers what you were trying to do in your question.

&nbsp; &nbsp; local function textBuilder( textTable) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;local textGroup = display.newGroup() &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;for i = 1, #textTable do &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if textTable[i].style == "BOLD" then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup:insert(display.newText(textTable[i].text, &nbsp;0,0, native.systemFontBold, 10)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;elseif textTable[i].style == "COLOR1" then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup:insert(display.newText(textTable[i].text, &nbsp;0,0, "Optima-Italic", 10)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup[textGroup.numChildren]:setTextColor(135,206,250) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;else &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup:insert(display.newText(textTable[i].text, &nbsp;0,0, native.systemFont, 10)) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;end &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup[textGroup.numChildren]:setReferencePoint(display.TopLeftReferencePoint) &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;if i \> 1 then &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;textGroup[textGroup.numChildren].x = textGroup[textGroup.numChildren - 1].x +&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;textGroup[textGroup.numChildren - 1].width &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;end&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;end&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return textGroup &nbsp;end &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;local &nbsp;myString = textBuilder( { {text = "Find the best apps at ", style = "STD"} , {text = "Cyber Park Studios ", style = "COLOR1"}, &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;{text = "where ", style = "STD"} , {text = "Apps R Fun ", style = "BOLD"} &nbsp;} ) &nbsp;myString.x = 20 &nbsp;myString.y = 50 &nbsp; &nbsp;

hope this helps

piotrz55 · October 2, 2013, 9:14am

Good workaround but still we are lacking real solution like

“This word should appear bold!”

or similar. Corona Labs - is it just impossible with Corona or can it be requested feature?

piotrz55 · September 30, 2013, 12:10pm

No

Helios · September 30, 2013, 2:51pm