Text

Introduction

Text objects have a Text property which controls the displayed text. By default this value is set to "Hello".

Changing Text

The Text property can be changed in the multi-line edit window.

Text will wrap according to the Text object's Width.

The enter key can be used to add new lines to text.

Using BBCode for Inline Styling

Gum text supports inline styling using BBCode-like syntax. To add inline styling, surround text with variable assignment tags as shown in the following screenshot:

Red color using BBCode syntax

The following table shows the available variables that can be used for inline styling:

Tag	Example	Result
Color	This is [Color=orange]orange[/Color] text.
Red Green Blue	This is [Red=0][Green=128][Blue=255]light blue[/Red][/Green][/Blue] text.
FontScale	This is [FontScale=2]big[/FontScale] text.
IsBold	This is [IsBold=true]bold[/IsBold] text.
IsItalic	This is [IsItalic=true]italic[/IsItalic] text.
Font	This is [Font=Papyrus]Papyrus[/Font] text.
FontSize	This is [FontSize=36]bigger[/FontSize] text.
OutlineThickness	This is [OutlineThickness=2]outlined[/OutlineThickness] text.

Note that changing Font and FontSize results in new Fonts created in the Font Cache.

BBCode can span multiple lines, whether the newlines happen due to line wrapping or through the addition of newlines in the text.

Text object with inline styling and explicit line breaks

Multiple tags can overlap each other allowing you to combine tags for a single piece of text. For example, the following sets text to both bold and orange:

This is [Color=Orange][IsBold=true]bold and orange[/Color][/IsBold] text.

Styled text that is bold and orange.

Styles can contain other styles as many levels deep as necessary.

This [Color=Orange]is orange, [IsBold=true]bold[/IsBold], and [IsItalic=true]italic[/IsItalic][/Color] text.