[Solved] Displaying text like it would be from chat?

[Ironside]

I'm trying to make the string which you can see in the bellow trigger be writen where normal in game chat messages are. adding \n gets me to the same height, but it's still a lot more right than game chat.

• Say
  • Events
    • Player - Player 1 (Red) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 2 (Blue) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 3 (Teal) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 4 (Purple) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 5 (Yellow) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 6 (Orange) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 7 (Green) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 8 (Pink) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 9 (Gray) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 10 (Light Blue) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 11 (Dark Green) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
    • Player - Player 12 (Brown) types a chat message containing -say as A substring
  • Conditions
  • Actions
    • Custom script: set udg_TempString = "\n\n\n\n\n"
    • Game - Display to (All players) for 15.00 seconds the text: ((TempString + [Global] |cff) + (Player_Colours[(Player number of (Triggering player))] + ((Name of (Triggering player)) + (:|r + (Substring((Entered chat string), 6, 50))))))

 

[WaterKnight]

The jass native lets you set all triggered messages' coordinates but the standard is already at the left limit, you won't get under the hero icons with that. How about transforming chat messages into triggered messages instead? for uniformity

 

[Magtheridon96]

You should use custom script and manipulate the x,y coordinates in the function DisplayTimedTextToPlayer

0, 0 is the default and everybody uses it, but you could something slightly different to reposition the text.

Something like 0.52, 1.00 makes the text display where Warcraft III displays stuff like "Must target a unit"

 

[Ironside]

So 0,0 is where the chat is?

 

[Magtheridon96]

0,0 is where normal messages displayed by the game are.
You have to expirement to find the chat's coords

 

[Ironside]

Ok one last thing, by changing the 0 to say 2 I just moved 2 pixels, centimeters or which unit?

 

[Geries]

Screen Size / 100 => 0.01( +/- the base coordinates ). Works like the Multiboard Screen Size thing. 2 would be out of the screen. Also if you set some text to 0.1 ( 10% ) will move EVERY texts ( Triggered texts ). Not just that one.

 

[Ironside]

Oh it's in %. Then I already have a few ideas on where to start about guessing it.
This is solved now.