Disable only some BBCode in RichTextLabel

housatic

I want to add a setting to disable animated text effects like [shake] in case a player finds them too distracting or hard to read. I'm wondering is there a way to disable specific BBCode tags, or do I have to strip them from the text myself? I don't want to disable BBCode entirely, because I still want basic formatting like bold and italics to work.

Toxe

housatic You can add custom effects so maybe you can overwrite existing ones, but I don't know.

DaveTheCoder Or you could construct the RichTextLabel's text property dynamically, using variables that hold the [shake] and [/shake] tags, and set those variables to empty strings to disable the shaking.

...but something like this would probably be the much easier way. Just generate your text dynamically and according to some flag either add shake or not.

DaveTheCoder

I don't see a way of conditionally disabling the shake tag.

You might be able to do the shaking as a custom effect instead, and turn that effect on or off in the code that implements the effect.

Or you could construct the RichTextLabel's text property dynamically, using variables that hold the [shake] and [/shake] tags, and set those variables to empty strings to disable the shaking.

housatic

Thanks for the ideas, for now I just ended up running Replace("[shake]","").Replace("[/shake]","") on the text. Which won't work if the tag includes variables but I'll deal with that later.

DaveTheCoder Or you could construct the RichTextLabel's text property dynamically, using variables that hold the [shake] and [/shake] tags, and set those variables to empty strings to disable the shaking.

I'm loading the text from a file that already includes all the BBCode, so I don't think that'll work for my case.