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[viniciusgerevini]

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[ThiagoCamposTN]

Hey Vinicius, I'm working on a prototype for a game using Godot and decided to give a go using Clyde to manage the dialogues. But I've encountered an usecase issue: I want in my game to have line breaks on the same dialogue box. The way I tried to do it was by changing the line line.value += " %s" % next_line.value on the Parser to line.value += "\n%s" % next_line.value. It actually works, but the Clyde editor didn't liked that and it crashes when I save a .clyde inside it. So I stopped using the custom editor and the text works as I expected in game. Is there any way currently to do something similar in a more stable way?

[ThiagoCamposTN]

I've realized that the crash was not related to this modification I've made, so everything is working correctly now! I can use the clyde editor on Godot with no issues 😁
The only downside is that I can't break long text into multiline, but that's not a problem for me personally.

[viniciusgerevini]

Hello @ThiagoCamposTN . I'm glad you were able to modify it for your needs.

Thinking on an out-of-the-box alternative, you could use quotes for that. Something like this should preserve the line breaks:

npc: "First line
second line
third line"

I guess the caveat is that if you use spaces for indentation this would also preserve the extra spaces, which might be annoying if you have a line like this:

npc: "First line
      second line
      third line"

Which would be rendered as:

First line
      second line
      third line

That can be worked around though, by removing the extra spaces using replace when needed. Also, I've just tested it with tabs and they don't seem to be rendered. So I guess this might be an alternative.

Cheers