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.
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.
original_text	StatFormulaComponent	✓	The original (old) text.
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.
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.