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TLDR eval->dd.say isn’t passing rich-text into the dialogizer In your Dialogizer deck, on the rich-text card, you mention that it’s easier to style by throwing rich-text into a field and having it parse using the eval method. So I’ve got a field, i’ve got it set to invisible in the card script, I’ve got a button that does the eval method. Everything is working well except that it isn’t showing the styling I’ve set in the field. I’ll mention, just as I typed this I tried to add a hyperlink in the same way (just manually add it to the field) and it also didn’t pass through the parsing operation.

Forgive me, I’m one of those dudes who got by in the 00s by just manually deleting html and css stuff and adding it back to “create my own myspace profile”. Like, that’s my level of coding know-how. I’m sure this question is voiced annoyingly; I’m trying to use words I’m not fluent with. Thank you for everything you do here IG.

AᵈᵈᵃᵐMᵃᵈᵈ29 days ago

Ok forgive me, I didn’t follow your operation faithfully, I now see. Your method was to use a button to point at one field that itself pointed at another field (which contained the rt formatted text). I was skipping the middle-person field and apparently, by doing that, it doesn’t render the rt formatting. I’m leaving this post because it may come up in the future; perhaps IG (or someone else) could simply verify that this was indeed my problem and if anything maybe propose how I might’ve skipped the middle-person step and kept the RT formatting.

ahmwma29 days ago(+2)

eval is a handy tool for making code snippets visible in the documentation, but it's not often needed while making projects with dialogizer. And it's probably working against you here.

This:

dd.open[deck]
dd.say[yourcoolfield.value]
dd.close[]

should be enough to play a scene written in a rich text field, with all of the formatting intact.

It's important that you point dd.say at the field's .value (which includes the rich text formatting) and not .text (which is plain text only)

If you strip it down and just put the above code snippet (with "yourcoolfield" renamed to be correct for your project) does it work?

AᵈᵈᵃᵐMᵃᵈᵈ29 days ago(+2)

That did it. So it must’ve been that I was using text and not value

thank you

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