Is there a way to change a style of a font directly in the code - not in MUI preferences?
I need to insert an emboss-like short information text somewhere out of buttons or other gadgets.
I already did emboss tekst in buttons with MUI prefs.

This is what I need to do in code. I've read about italics, bold, colours in AmigaE docs, but there's nothing more. Maybe there are some MUI specific formatings hidden that I can use i E code?

Last edited by r-tea on 28-Mar-2017 at 05:06 PM.

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@r-tea

Most probably you want ghosted text. Use "\033g" as preparse string to activate ghosted text and "\033G" to disable it again. Essentially this is a simple shadow effect with swapped colors (light colored shadow, dark colored text).

I don't know whether this works with MUI 3.8 already, but at least with MUI 3.9 and all further versions.

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@tboeckel

Thank you.
It looks a bit different, but actually this is what I expected.
Don't know why, but I had to use "\eg" instead of "\033g". Maybe it's because I use ECX compiler - nor EC.
Is somewhere out there a complete list of formatting codes like the one you have mentioned?

Last edited by r-tea on 01-Apr-2017 at 09:59 PM.

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@tboeckel

Oh, and is there a way to affect the font size inside the code?

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@r-tea

There is a list here from the mui.e module source. BTW the "\033" would be octal for 27 which is escape code in C. So with E/CX it just uses an "\e" which I think is more readable anyway. E for Escape.

/***************************************************************************
** Control codes for text strings
***************************************************************************/

#define MUIX_R '\er' /* right justified */
#define MUIX_C '\ec' /* centered */
#define MUIX_L '\el' /* left justified */

#define MUIX_N '\en' /* normal */
#define MUIX_B '\eb' /* bold */
#define MUIX_I '\ei' /* italic */
#define MUIX_U '\eu' /* underlined */

#define MUIX_PT '\e2' /* text pen */
#define MUIX_PH '\e8' /* highlight text pen */

Last edited by Hypex on 02-Apr-2017 at 02:54 PM.

@Hypex

Is it full list?
Can't see thr "g" code mentioned by tboeckel.

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@r-tea

Since a few day we also have an online version of all MUI Autodocs set up:
http://muidev.de/wiki/Documentation

The full list of available special sequences can be found in the MUI Autodocs of Text.mui in the description of MUIA_Text_Contents:
http://muidev.de/wiki/Documentation/API/MUI_Text#MUIA_Text_Contents

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Oh, and is there a way to affect the font size inside the code?

Set MUIA_Font to either one of the special values or to a TextFont pointer returned by OpenFont().

http://muidev.de/wiki/Documentation/API/MUI_Area#MUIA_Font

Keep in mind that it is a bad idea in general to enforce a specific font by setting a TextFont pointer from OpenFont(), as the user has no chance to modify this font via MUI prefs. You enforce a specific font with a specific size which does not necessarily match the other fonts the user has configured. So better stick with either the MUIV_Font_XXX values or leave the default settings active.

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@r-tea

It is for the text escape strings. But it may be an old MUI 3.8 version module. It's from libraries/mui.m.

@tboeckel

Thanks. This documentation seems to be a bit newer than the one on MUI's home website.

I'll use MUIV_Font_xxx special values.

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