UILabel and restricted strings...

[Joe @ ByDesign Games]

UI dev here noticed UILabel goes blank whenever "[ Body ]" is used for .text, yet we've legitimate need to display such string.

Is there a way to display such string without UILabel going blank?

Also, is the list of restricted strings documented somewhere? Took 30min to track this down, ugh.

[ArenMook]

Turn off encoding on the label. 6 characters encased within square brackets is a special symbol.

[ArenMook]

Btw, if you're not using symbols (color encoding essentially), turn off encoding on those labels. Turning off that, and multi-line, will actually make your labels faster.

[Joe @ ByDesign Games]

6 characters eh? Ahh that explains why [Body] works, but [ Body ] does not.

Turns out we don't need encoding for this UILabel, so the fix is in; though seems sort of an arbitrary restriction...

just saying!

[ArenMook]

It's just how you encode colors.

[RrGgBb]

[Joe @ ByDesign Games]

hmm any reason # isn't used? as in [#RrGgBb]

[ArenMook]

Less characters.

[Joe @ ByDesign Games]

[Joe @ ByDesign Games]

My thinking is:

"forcing users to never have 6 characters within brackets"

is more annoying / unnatural / bizarre than:

"forcing use of commonly accepted # character to specify colors within brackets"

Adding, the longer removing the 6 char limit and instead requiring # for color is put off, the harder it will be to fix later.

[ryan]

Or if nothing else, provide some way to encode a left square bracket and a function to do just that on a given string.  I've had one or two cases where I wanted to embed some colors in a label, but also include text input by a user without allowing that portion of the text to change colors.  I put off actually dealing with it, but it would be convenient if NGUI supported that.

[ArenMook]

Simple enough to do. Strip the symbols from the user-input text before merging it with your own symbol-supporting text.

NGUITools.StripSymbols

[ryan]

I noticed StripSymbols, but then I'm not displaying the text entered by the user, am I.    I would want to preserve the brackets and any other random junk entered by the user.

[Nicki]

Then you don't allow encoding there.