No way to create paragraphs of text?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

display.newText only creates single lines of text.

I found this: http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/wrap-text but it is very erratic (basically just throws text on the screen with no formatting or control of width, line breaks, etc.).

Any other solutions or is this another UI dead end? Do I have to create pngs for all my instructional text? [import]uid: 52127 topic_id: 12502 reply_id: 312502[/import]

#2

Check out the CrawlSpace Library:

http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/crawl-space-library [import]uid: 22392 topic_id: 12502 reply_id: 45667[/import]

#3

Thanks. I’m actually using that but didn’t know about the paragraph function. The alignment doesn’t seem to work though:

local format = {}  
 format.font = Arial  
 format.size = 10  
 format.lineHeight = 2  
 format.align = "left"  
  
 local myText = display.newParagraph( "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.", 50, format)  
 myGroup:insert(helpText);

The text is still center-aligned event though I set format.align to “left”. [import]uid: 52127 topic_id: 12502 reply_id: 45692[/import]