DrawTextBoxed Color change escape sequence.

API.md

@@ -8026,6 +8026,7 @@ Draw multiple character (codepoint)
 > mouseCharId, textOffset = RL.DrawTextBoxed(Font font, string text, Rectangle rec, float fontSize, float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, int|nil tabSize )
 
 Draw text using font inside rectangle limits.
+Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 
 - Success return int, Vector2
 
@@ -8036,6 +8037,7 @@ Draw text using font inside rectangle limits.
 Draw text using font inside rectangle limits. Return character id from mouse position (default 0).
 textOffset can be used to set start position inside rectangle. Usefull to pass from previous
 DrawTextBoxedEx for continuous text.
+Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 
 - Success return int, Vector2
 

ReiLua_API.lua

@@ -4529,6 +4529,7 @@ function  RL.DrawTextCodepoint( font, codepoint, position, fontSize, tint ) end
 function  RL.DrawTextCodepoints( font, codepoints, position, fontSize, spacing, tint ) end
 
 ---Draw text using font inside rectangle limits.
+---Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 ---- Success return int, Vector2
 ---@param font any
 ---@param text string
@@ -4546,6 +4547,7 @@ function RL.DrawTextBoxed( font, text, rec, fontSize, spacing, wordWrap, tint, l
 ---Draw text using font inside rectangle limits. Return character id from mouse position (default 0).
 ---textOffset can be used to set start position inside rectangle. Usefull to pass from previous
 ---DrawTextBoxedEx for continuous text.
+---Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 ---- Success return int, Vector2
 ---@param font any
 ---@param text string

changelog

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ DETAILED CHANGES:
 	- ADDED: SetImageData.
 	- FIXED: DrawTextBoxed Could draw text outside rect when using special characters.
 	Also accepts optional tabSize argument.
+	- ADDED: DrawTextBoxed Color change escape sequence.
 
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 Release:	ReiLua version 0.8.0		Using Raylib 5.0 and Forked Raygui 4.0

examples/textBoxed/main.lua

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ function RL.draw()
 	RL.ClearBackground( RL.RAYWHITE )
 	RL.DrawRectangleLines( rect, RL.GREEN )
 
-	mouseCharId, textOffset = RL.DrawTextBoxedEx(
+	_, textOffset = RL.DrawTextBoxedEx(
 		RL.GetFontDefault(),
 		"\tYou can change the size of the box by pressing right mouse and toggle the wordwrap by pressing space. First we will write some text before the hyperlink to show that it is indeed is as powerful feature as adverticed.",
 		rect,
@@ -45,12 +45,18 @@ function RL.draw()
 		rect,
 		textSize, spacing, wordwrap, linkColor, limitHeight, textOffset
 	)
-	RL.DrawTextBoxedEx(
+	_, textOffset = RL.DrawTextBoxedEx(
 		RL.GetFontDefault(),
 		" Then we demonstrate this further by writin more text after the link. Isn't this just amazing! Don't forget to press left mouse to print text to your console when hovering mouse over the hyperlink.",
 		rect,
 		textSize, spacing, wordwrap, RL.RED, limitHeight, textOffset
 	)
+	RL.DrawTextBoxedEx(
+		RL.GetFontDefault(),
+		" \a#D28484FF Also supports \a#0000FFFF changing text \a#CCD834FF color in the \a#00FFFFFF middle of \a#B623A3FF the \a#00FF00FF text draw.",
+		rect,
+		textSize, spacing, wordwrap, RL.WHITE, limitHeight, textOffset
+	)
 
 	if 0 < mouseCharId then
 		linkColor = RL.GREEN

src/text.c

@@ -24,6 +24,38 @@ static float measureWord( Font font, char* text, float fontSize, float spacing )
 	return size.x;
 }
 
+static int getDigit( const char input ) {
+	switch ( input ) {
+	case '0': return 0;
+	case '1': return 1;
+	case '2': return 2;
+	case '3': return 3;
+	case '4': return 4;
+	case '5': return 5;
+	case '6': return 6;
+	case '7': return 7;
+	case '8': return 8;
+	case '9': return 9;
+	case 'a':
+	case 'A': return 10;
+	case 'b':
+	case 'B': return 11;
+	case 'c':
+	case 'C': return 12;
+	case 'd':
+	case 'D': return 13;
+	case 'e':
+	case 'E': return 14;
+	case 'f':
+	case 'F': return 15;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static unsigned char getHexValue( const char* ptr, size_t offset ) {
+	return getDigit( ptr[ offset ] ) * 16 + getDigit( ptr[ offset + 1 ] );
+}
+
 static int DrawTextBoxed( Font font, char* text, Rectangle rec, float fontSize,
 float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, Vector2* textOffset, int tabSize ) {
 	int lineSpacing = state->lineSpacing;
@@ -53,8 +85,20 @@ float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, Vector2* textOffset,
 			measure = true;
 		}
 		else if ( codepoint == '\t' ) {
+			textOffset->x += (float)font.recs[ GetGlyphIndex( font, ' ' ) ].width * tabSize * scaleFactor + spacing;
 			measure = true;
 		}
+		else if ( codepoint == '\a' ) {
+			i++; /* Jump over escape '\a'. */
+			if ( text[i] == '#' ) {
+				i++;
+				tint.r = getHexValue( &text[i], 0 );
+				tint.g = getHexValue( &text[i], 2 );
+				tint.b = getHexValue( &text[i], 4 );
+				tint.a = getHexValue( &text[i], 6 );
+				i += 8;
+			}
+		}
 		else if ( wordWrap && ( wordWidth < rec.width ) ) {
 			if ( measure && codepoint != ' ' ) {
 				wordWidth = measureWord( font, &text[i], fontSize, spacing );
@@ -80,7 +124,7 @@ float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, Vector2* textOffset,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		if ( codepoint != '\n' && codepoint != '\t' && !( textOffset->x == 0 && codepoint == ' ' ) && codepointWidth < rec.width ) {
+		if ( codepoint != '\a' && codepoint != '\n' && codepoint != '\t' && !( textOffset->x == 0 && codepoint == ' ' ) && codepointWidth < rec.width ) {
 			DrawTextCodepoint( font, codepoint, (Vector2){ round( rec.x + textOffset->x ), round( rec.y + textOffset->y ) }, fontSize, tint );
 
 			if ( CheckCollisionPointRec( mousePos, (Rectangle){ rec.x + textOffset->x - 1, rec.y + textOffset->y, codepointWidth, (float)font.baseSize * scaleFactor } ) ) {
@@ -88,9 +132,6 @@ float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, Vector2* textOffset,
 			}
 			textOffset->x += codepointWidth;
 		}
-		else if ( codepoint == '\t' ) {
-			textOffset->x += (float)font.recs[ GetGlyphIndex( font, ' ' ) ].width * tabSize * scaleFactor + spacing;
-		}
 		i += codepointByteCount;
 	}
 	return mouseChar;
@@ -538,6 +579,7 @@ int ltextDrawTextCodepoints( lua_State* L ) {
 > mouseCharId, textOffset = RL.DrawTextBoxed(Font font, string text, Rectangle rec, float fontSize, float spacing, bool wordWrap, Color tint, bool limitHeight, int|nil tabSize )
 
 Draw text using font inside rectangle limits.
+Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 
 - Success return int, Vector2
 */
@@ -568,6 +610,7 @@ int ltextDrawTextBoxed( lua_State* L ) {
 Draw text using font inside rectangle limits. Return character id from mouse position (default 0).
 textOffset can be used to set start position inside rectangle. Usefull to pass from previous
 DrawTextBoxedEx for continuous text.
+Support for tint change with "\a#FFFFFFFF"
 
 - Success return int, Vector2
 */