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.
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")
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