float text question

hi i was wondering how do you make a float text to cut off and appear in a new line?

eg:
before
what would this text look like in LSL

after
What would
this text look like
in LSL

Add newline characters to your string with the character sequence "\n" in your script: llSetText("What would\nthis text look like\nin LSL", <1.0, 1.0, 1.0>, 1.0);

ahh thanks thats where the problem is, i didn't add n at the back

The \n only seems to work when the text is in the script itself. I recently tried to read the text from a note card and insert it into an llSetText statement and it didn't work the same way. The actual character sequence \n appear rather than an actual newline.

Try seperate values for each line, and in the float text have it

value1 \n value 2

etc

Correct. Inside a script, the "\n" character sequence inside a string literal is interpreted as a newline by the compiler. Strings read as input are not compiled, and may contain newlines (or always be single-line, like when a resident is chatting using the standard client or a notecard line is retrieved) in some cases anyway.

Yes, I discovered something similar; when reading in text from chat for displaying as float text, the '\n' also does not result in newlines being used.

The following code will take the string value in variable 'sTextStr' and rebuild the string, parsing the string and inserting newline characters, so the results will display as intended:

// Check for embedded "\n" (newline) character-strings
// and re-parse the string to add newlines
if(llSubStringIndex(sTextStr, "\\n") != -1)
{
	// Replace any '\n' with newlines
	//  (note: need a second '\' to allow a literal search for '\')
	sTextStr = llDumpList2String(llParseString2List(sTextStr, ["\\n"], []), "\n");
}

Give the above a try.

also, within a script
"blah\nblah"
is the same as
"blah
blah"

when reading from a notecard you can parse the string to a list, using "\\n" as a seperator and then parse it back to a string adding "\n" as the inserted seperator using dump list 2 string