0.6.0 "Glass Case Of Emotion"

This release brings support for rendering TextureRegions from a TextureAtlas by name -- in practice, this means there's emoji support now! KnownFonts.addEmoji() has docs on how to do this, and the docs for markup() have been updated with the new [+🎷] syntax. There's also some major improvements to how events are timed (they're still not perfect when variables are involved, though), and also how some letters are positioned at the start of a line (like 'j' was sticking out to the left). I think this is a fairly solid release, but there are likely to be some corner-case bugs, so please report any problems you find on the Issues here, or on the libGDX Discord.

Woo, emoji! 🥳

0.5.5 "Like A Record"

This release drastically improves the quality of rotations for TextraLabels and TypingLabels, especially those with backgrounds. It also lets rotations use an origin point, which I think should be useful for complex UIs. Backgrounds in Textra and TypingLabel now also set the minimum size in the same way that they do in scene2d.ui's Label, so more UIs should be compatible. This last feature also is important because it makes alignment to the top or bottom actually move the text around on the background, as opposed to before where the background was shrunk to hug the text. Just in general, a bunch of new features, and some of these were very much a challenge to implement.

Thanks as always to raeleus for keeping me going on this (I'm looking forward to another classic video!), and big thanks here to fraudo for writing LabelRotationTest and walking me through what backgrounds and rotations needed to get working.

0.5.4 "Royal Draconic Jubilee"

This is a minor release that tries to fix some stubborn positioning bugs, and I believe it has succeeded in most places. Notably, many fonts in families would use very-wrong vertical position for their first line only, and now they should use the right height and position. There were several other location-related bugs that were squashed in this release, If you downloaded the known fonts for the last release (0.5.3), no font files have changed since then; if you last downloaded them before that, you should probably re-download any you use.

Rotation is partly implemented here for Labels, but isn't correct if they have a background (the BG is off-position for a TextraLabel and not rotated at all for a TypingLabel). You can use the rotation parameter of Font.drawGlyphs() to rotate a Layout relatively well, however.

Happy birthday, DragunQween, and thanks for using TextraTypist for your first game, a while ago! I hope I see more people using TextraTypist soon!

0.5.3 "Solid and Scaly"

This is another bugfix release that cleans up and polishes some positioning and word-wrapping quirks, and improves some of the corner cases encountered by SquidSquad (mostly relating to grid positions). It also improves or fixes many of the KnownFonts, so you should download any Font files you use again. If you use older Font files here, there may be all sorts of display issues. It also adds the new ScaleEffect, which permanently scales text centered in-place, without changing layout.

0.5.2 "Awkward Positioning"

This is numbered as a bugfix release, because it shouldn't contain any major API breaks (unless they fixed bugs), but it nonetheless was a rather significant effort. This release fixes the positioning on Font, TextraLabel, and TypingLabel, which were all often subtly incorrect in 0.5.1 (and sometimes not at all subtly wrong). It also improves most of the KnownFonts, so you should download any Font files you use again. If you use older Font files here, there may be all sorts of display issues. Underlines and strikethrough lines are thinner in this version, and though sometimes they can get close to too thin, they are always visible. Integer positioning is handled better for fonts that need it. There's just, all in all, a whole lot of fixes here.

0.5.1 "Super Effective"

This release adds a lot of TypingLabel effects, and improves the support for what custom effects can do. The new effects are now visible and documented on the Tokens wiki page. They take advantage of the new ability to smoothly scale individual glyphs, and also to specify rotation per-glyph in an effect. Other than the effects, this is a minor release, and only some small bug fixes have been added (relating to size-changed or rotated text).

0.5.0 "Spirals Have No Corners"

This release updates the dependency on libGDX to 1.11.0, and otherwise has a wide variety of mostly-small fixes to corner-case bugs. It does add SpiralEffect though, so there's your eye candy for the release. Another nice visual improvement (and maybe a performance boost as well) comes from how this lays out large TypingLabel items. Now the whole label has its size evaluated before any glyphs are typed, so taller glyphs that show up mid-line don't suddenly increase that line's height. This also means the widget can be laid out using its final size, rather than a changing intermediate size. Other fixed bugs include 8-digit hex colors being parsed incorrectly, very long single words breaking word wrap, incomplete effects with parameters breaking the parsing, alignment having some issues, and the color in a LabelStyle not being used by a TypingLabel. Whew. I hope this is useful!

0.4.0 "Widget Fidgeting"

This release fixes several problematic bugs in 0.3.0, and also adds quite a few altered copies of scene2d.ui widgets that use Font and TextraLabel instead of BitmapFont and Label. One of the fixed bugs has to do with an incorrect minimum size for block drawing elements; when a world unit took up, say, 32 pixels, the minimum size for most details was 32 pixels, and now this has been corrected. At least one bug relating to word wrapping was fixed, mostly affecting TypingLabel. There's a new font; Bitter is a light-weight serif that looks similar to Gentium but with more stylistic flourishes on some glyphs. Various different fixes are in place that were found because of @raeleus ' hard work on a rich text entry field; the field is almost ready, but it wouldn't work at all if certain bugs hadn't been fixed. Two of these bugs affected opening brackets or braces that weren't closed; these had all sorts of problems and could sometimes freeze an app. ColorUtils has new support for HSB/HSV as well as the existing HSL support; this helps the color picker widget in raeleus' code. KnownFonts has agetStandardFamily() method that gets a copy of Gentium with all non-distance-field fonts registered in its family. Fonts can be given names that they will store, and FontFamily allows accessing fonts by those names.

In general, this is a pretty big release, but I wanted it out and stable so I can make more big updates for the next release. I am going to try to get TypingLabel to handle varying line-heights better, as well as make it use a fixed amount of space (instead of expanding as it types). I eventually want to get some form of selectable text display or even input to work, since libGDX TextArea and TextField can't function if markup is enabled in them. There is a workaround; currently you can disable markup with a BitmapFont and pass that BitmapFont to a TextraTypist Font, and then both markup will work in TextraLabels, and TextField will work with the BitmapFont.

To upgrade, I recommend getting any KnownFonts you want to use from the repo again. Some changed in various ways. There aren't any breaking API changes that I can think of.

I hope you enjoy!

0.3.0 "Happy Birthday Mister Zebra"

It's time to celebrate! Text rotation is here! Some weird niche features are also here, but they improve the appearance of underline and strikethrough! But mostly text rotation is finally available to libGDX! Hooray! You will probably want to update your KnownFonts images and .fnt files, since they changed here. Future additions to the fonts should also be customized to add a block of solid white pixels into the font image, unless the underline and dash are sufficient already for underline and strikethrough. There's a BlockStamper test in the repo that can be used to add that block.

Woohoo!

0.2.1 "Yippee Skippy"

The work in this release mostly consisted of cleaning up the fonts in KnownFonts (which had some naming inconsistencies and rendering artifacts in 0.2.0), but also fixed a major bug in TypingLabel.skipToTheEnd(). The bug fixed involved lines being suddenly added when skipping, but the new lines all being squashed into the same position. Because of the KnownFonts improvements (and especially because the links in the documentation all point to the current version), using 0.2.1 is strongly recommended over 0.2.0 if you use KnownFonts or TypingLabel.