Support rich text in rendering.draw_text

[grilledham]

It would be nice if rendering.draw_text supported rich text.

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[Bilka]

I can't easily scale, rotate, and calculate the size of rich text, so this is unlikely to happen. You could just draw the sprites yourself.

[Rseding91]

In addition to what Bilka said I have negative interest in making rich-text work anywhere in the game.

If I was allowed I would remove the entire feature.

So, I'm going to move this to won't-implement until some point that we either remove rich text from the game or Bilka decides to implement support for it.

So, probably forever.

[Genhis]

Implemented for 1.1.77

[mmmPI]

There sure must be an interesting story behind this

I appreciate the rich text feature for that i have friends who don't play in english and it help reduce confusion about naming things.

I have no idea what kind of complications it creates to manage such feature.

[Genhis]

An interesting story? Well, Bilka asked me to implement it a few weeks ago because of some changes I made in 1.2 branch, and BurninSun actually pushed me to do it with how determined he was to make a rich text parser in Lua.

At first, it seemed like I would have to cut features like scaling and alignment because I didn't want to spend much time on this but it turned out not as bad. The most difficult thing (orientation) had already been implemented. So, I added features + tests step by step and JanSharp helped me with in-game testing.

However, Rseding's point is still valid. Rich text rendering is not optimized.

[ljdp]

Using the quality parameter in an item tag, like [item=iron-plate,quality=rare] doesn't work with rendering.draw_text. It does work in chat though. It would be great rendering did support the quality param, as I'm rendering auxilary machine information when alt-mode is on and some items have higher quality.

[ljdp]

Also worth noting I can't use rendering.draw_sprite to draw the quality icon on top in my situation, as I'm rendering a rectangle as a background element, there's no render layer that will let me draw the sprite above the rectangle.