append to a formatted hint instead of overlapping it

[Dorian Gray 10]

How do I do this

like Silola does in DAC? I've been studying his scripts and I suspect it has to do with a sleep and line break but I still can't figure it out.

[Dorian Gray 10]

It looks like Silola hasn't been around since October, so I don't think he'll be coming around to help me out with this.

...sorry, didn't mean to double post, meant to edit, wasn't focusing.

[Dorian Gray 10]

Okay this deserves a third post as I have figured it out after about 1K trials, studying Silola's code. It's quite embarrassing just how simple this looks, although it is an entirely stripped down version:

_text = "test";
hintSilent parseText _text;
sleep 0.2;
_text = (_text + "<br/>" + "test");
hintSilent parseText _text;

This simply outputs "test" twice with a line break as a single silent hint in the upper right. I would like to figure out how to make it increment automatically; I'm assuming that would be done with a cycle or cycle with step shown here.

Who knows, maybe there's even yet a simpler way to do the above, as I am still a beginner. I am aware of how to do formatting, and I was thinking of making a custom death message script, complete with icons for what weapon a player was killed with. The death messages would not overlap; there would be a "death message history". AFAIK that hasn't been done, but if it has, good. That would take a lot of work ;)

[shuko 59]

Since only one hint can be shown at one time, you need to replace it. So, the code above is the way to go.

[Dorian Gray 10]

Well is it possible to do something like list "test" 10 times without pasting the code over and over again?

[shuko 59]

Of course, with a loop. What I meant was that the way to "append" is actually replacing.

[CptBBQ 10]

I don´t see what the first 'hintSilent' is good for...

Why not use something like this?

hintSilent parseText format["<t size='1.15' font='Zeppelin33' color='#81B1E1'>test<br/>%1<br/>%1</t>",_text];

[Dorian Gray 10]

That doesn't achieve the desired "typewriter" effect that Silola uses because it doesn't use any sleeps. Also, I am familiar with format usage. I wanted to demonstrate my finding in its most basic form (without any formatting whatsoever).

[CptBBQ 10]

Oh, I see =)

I haven´t tried DAC yet, and I didn´t get the info from your screen shot. I wasn´t so much trying to help but more interested in the point of your request ^^

That "typewriter" effect is indeed a neat idea...