How to display a dialog the way I need

[benreeper]

You can put the text in a listbox.
--Ben

[General Barron]

Do you mean that if i want to put in the dialog a text that looks somewhat like the following:

Today is a bad day
I hope that tomorrow will be better
But can't believe it will be so

I need to create three different text boxes to display it?
In this case I will switch to the hintc immediately.......

Klavan

Yup, I have never been able to get \n to work in a dialog either. Such a pity, since they are the best way of displaying lots of text. But anyway, in the past I've got around the problem by just using a bunch of spaces, to force the text down onto the next line. Takes some trial and error, but it works if you aren't changing what you are displaying.

Dialogs rock! I'm with Igor--I wish they were more widely used!

[klavan]

It's quite a long job, but the result isn't so bad as you can see from the picture attached below.
Klavan

[General Barron]

BTW, if you are going to be displaying lots of text (which it looks like you are), then you might find it easiest to put that text in an external .txt file, and then use the 'loadfile' command to put its contents into the dialog. Again, just speaking from experience.

[klavan]

Maybe, but since I'm making an english and italian version of the displayed text how can I avoid to use a .csv?
Klavan

[Tyger]

Yes, Dialogs and titleRscs are quite amazing. I've used several in my most recent missions. Also, why didn't anyone use them with v1.46 and lower, since they were still compatible?