Time for a messed up screenshot :p :

http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/959/mess3yo.png

I think the first two tiles illustrate the problem with the uneven widths. K is 7 pixel wide (1 space included), and i is 2 pixel wide. Somehow they got combined right, but the i was then duplicated in the new tile, because the tile was cut off wrong in RAM. It removed the trailing space instead of the i because their positions are switched on pixel level >-< I don't know which problems after that are related to that problem and how many are related to other problems with the code. I didn't step through the routine for every character, just for the first two or three.

Can no one help me with this issue? If I have to adjust the font so that every character has an even width it might turn out messy as I have to shorten some by one pixel and widen some others. I'm afraid the font will look too random then

There seems to be a logic problem. You don't shift the last data.
I don't understand what 2005000 and 2005001 are supposed to do, since one of them get's overwritten in the process two times.

So here's an outline.

2005000=width already in tile
2005001=width of current character

now, first thing you want to do is this:

clear 2005000/1 and tile1-3 before the actual text display starts.

Now, if 2005000 is 0, just paste the tile onto tile3 (that gets dma'ed) and save it's width in 2005000 (of course, that is, if you DON'T have characters wider than 8px, else, find a workaround)

if 2005000 is <>0, then. dma the character to tileram1. shift it right thru tileram2 until it's first pixel = [2005000] now and and or the data into tileram3, transfer to old vram location (you might have to rewrite how it counts tiles, or else your automated function that reads tileoffset [in vram] from ram will screw it up).
Increase tilecount for vram tile. dma tileram2 to new tile.

calculate [2005001] +8 - [2005000] and write that to [2005000].

cYa,

Tauwasser

Yay!

Nice work Kaio. I'm impressed. You learn fast.

If you haven't fixed that end line control code yet, all you need to do is print the spill over if there is any on a new tile and drop out and let the game handle it from there. That's all you're missing.

Yeah I'm interested in seeing the source.

It should be bug free now It took me much much longer than expected to implement the line break stuff properly (it worked early, but with loads of bugs), but now it looks fantastic.

Did my notes help any? I know, I wasn't being the nicest person I can be...

cYa,

Tauwasser

The original routine did exactly that, my does still the same, just with combining several on the tiles in RAM before sending


I fixed the problem you brought up some time before, sorry I didn't reupload the code to the latest source.  I don't know why your post should haven been not nice or anything, if I hadn't  catched that error before it would have been very helpful.


Well... I have to add/clean up the comments a bit now. It's by no means good code, there is a lot of redundancy in it I think, but it should help you understand the basic workings I guess.