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RichText

Description

A very versatile text display element that's used to power the default chat and console.

Rich Text panels allows multicolored, highlight-able, and interactive text using individual text segment markup (segments are defined by the Panel:AppendText method).

The RichText element has a 64000 character limit.

You can hide the RichText scrollbar with the following function: Panel:SetVerticalScrollbarEnabled

Parent

Derives methods, etc not listed on this page from Panel.

Example

Creates a Rich Text frame with 3 text segments.

-- Window frame for containing text local frame = vgui.Create("DFrame") frame:SetSize(200, 150) frame:Center() frame:MakePopup() -- Rich Text panel local richtext = vgui.Create( "RichText", frame ) richtext:Dock( FILL ) -- Text segment #1 (grayish color) richtext:InsertColorChange( 192, 192, 192, 255 ) richtext:AppendText( "This \nRichText \nis \n" ) -- Text segment #2 (light yellow) richtext:InsertColorChange( 255, 255, 224, 255 ) richtext:AppendText( "AWESOME\n\n" ) -- Text segment #3 (red ESRB notice localized string) richtext:InsertColorChange( 255, 64, 64, 255 ) richtext:AppendText( "#ServerBrowser_ESRBNotice" )
Output:
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