UILabel font size and ClampContent

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Hi!

I use UIInput (with BitmapFonts) for my chat input. In design (photoshop) font size = 12. If i do export font (BMFont) with a similar size, it looks very bad inside Unity.
So I make export a big font size (eg 36).
For chat input i set UILabel to ClampContent (for long strings). But after I reduce the size (height dimension) of the label from 36 to eg 16, label disappears.
What should I do? How to make a small font with good quality? Is very different from the font design in Photoshop.
I have a tool ShoeBox, but it has no kerning pairs for cyrillic 

Thanks!

[ArenMook]

Clamp means just that -- clamp it. If it doesn't fit, remove it.

Shrink is what you want.

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Clamp means just that -- clamp it. If it doesn't fit, remove it.

Shrink is what you want.

But I need to carriage was always visible, even if the input string does not fit in the control (like in your Chat example, there is Clamp Content).
And when I present the Shrink (or Clamp), when UIInput is selected the option Encoding (use emoticons ...) for UILabel automatically removed from the label (I need to use emoticons), what is that?.

[ArenMook]

Input field text can't support symbols and color encoding. It has always been like that.

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Input field text can't support symbols and color encoding. It has always been like that.

Why is there such a restriction?

[ArenMook]

Because players embedding colors in the stuff they type is undesirable at best.

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Because players embedding colors in the stuff they type is undesirable at best.

Then why not share option into two parts - a separate color and smiles separately. For example, when you type text on Skype and want to add a smiley, if you write by hand smile he displayed as text in the input line, and if you choose from the drop down list, then it is inserted as a string as a picture. May make a separate tag [smile] [-] and then the text would be interpreted as a picture, or else as text?
For chat inputs sometimes it's good when emoticons are displayed in the input line, at least not right away but after a certain box in Skype

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So what do you think about this?

[ArenMook]

Right now? Nothing. Too busy... In the future, may make sense.

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Okay

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Hi!
I did not create a new topic, noticed:

1. Open Chat Example.
2. Input string: "123123123]"
3. What you see on the output: "12"

I think it should not be.

Previously, I created a topic about creating separate tags for emoticons.
For example may be a situation:
I have emoticons with sequences "]" and ":["
Eg text: "hello my phone number :[123123]" will be interpreted incorrectly. Of course, you can format the text you type after sending.

[ArenMook]

Confirmed, thanks. I've fixed it in the repository, so you will see the fix in the next update.

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Confirmed, thanks. I've fixed it in the repository, so you will see the fix in the next update.

I do my little chat for the game, and how many had to dig in NGUI (UIInput, UILabel, ScrollBars, Clipped Panels etc)