DiffText

This view allows you to display a text showing where the differences are between two strings (texts). This is particularly useful when showing the player what their progression unlocked for them (e.g: when levelling up and feature descriptions vary slightly).

JSON Format

{
  "type": "diffText",
  "id": ...,
  "type": ...,
  "margin_left": ...,
  "margin_right": ...,
  "margin_top": ...,
  "margin_bottom": ...,
  "is_visible": ...,
  "validation_message": ...,
  "original_text": ...,
  "new_text": ...,
  "added_color": ...,
  "deleted_color": ...
}

Fields

Field	Type	Required	Description
id	String	✓	A unique identifier for the view. You can use it to reference view values in stat formulas by doing $view.view_id (where view_id is the id that was assigned to this view by you in the system definition)
type	RPGViewType	✓	The type of this view. Note that these are all in camelCase.
margin_left	double		Optional. How much margin to add to the left of this view.
margin_right	double		Optional. How much margin to add to the right of this view.
margin_top	double		Optional. How much margin to add to the top of this view.
margin_bottom	double		Optional. How much margin to add to the bottom of this view.
is_visible	StatFormulaComponent		Optional. A formula to specify if the view should be visible or not. Must return a bool. @type bool
validation_message	StatFormulaComponent		Optional. If this view is an input, you can define this formula to return a message when the input value is invalid. If the input is valid, you should return null. Otherwise, make the formula return the string that should be shown to the user. @type string
original_text	StatFormulaComponent	✓	The original (old) text. @type string
new_text	StatFormulaComponent	✓	The new version of the text. Things added to this text will display in the added_color, and things removed from the original_text will display in the deleted_color. @type string
added_color	String		Optional. Defaults to green. The color to display added text in.
deleted_color	String		Optional. Defaults to red. The color to display removed / deleted text in.