HQText Core Component

Overview

This is the core HQText component and is used to set all of the properties for the text that will be rendered. This component does not display any text in Unity. To display text another component is used, usually HQText (UGUI).

Properties

Property	Type	Range	Default	Description
Text	String			The text to display.
Font Settings
Font Family	String			The font use for the text in this component.
Font Face	String			The font face refers to the 'style' of the font. Bold, italic, etc.
Font Size	Float		25.0	The size in points of the text.
Use Markup	Bool		False	You can use markup to format the text in this component. See more about markup here.
Text Color	Color		Black	The main color of the text.
Paragraph Settings
Horizontal Alignment	Enum		Left	Where to place the text horizontally in the text box.
Vertical Alignment	Enum		Top	Where to place the text vertically in the text box.
Line Spacing in Pixels	Float		0.0	How big to set the gap between lines. If it is 0, then it will ignore it.
Text Box Settings
Auto Padding	Bool		True	Whether the padding should be calculated automatically. Set to false to manually enter padding values.
Padding.Left	Float		0.0	How much space there should be between the left side of the text area bounds and text.
Padding.Right	Float		0.0	How much space there should be between the right side of the text area bounds and text.
Padding.Top	Float		0.0	How much space there should be between the top side of the text area bounds and text.
Padding.Bottom	Float		0.0	How much space there should be between the bottom side of the text area bounds and text.
Horizontal Wrapping	Enum		Wrap	Controls the text rendering when the text reaches the bounds of the text area. Options are: • Wrap - Wrap the text onto the next line. • Clip - Do not wrap the text, simply clip it to the bounds of the text box. • Expand - Show all the text even if it is beyond the bounds of the text area.
Vertical Wrapping	Enum		Clip	Controls the text rendering when the text reaches the bounds of the text area. Options are: • Clip - Do not wrap the text, simply clip it to the bounds of the text box. • Expand - Show all the text even if it is beyond the bounds of the text area.
Control Characters				Control characters are special characters that change how the text is rendered but aren't visible themselves.
Left to Right	Button			Left to right mark goes at the front of the string to determine directionality.
Right to Left	Button			Right to left mark goes at the front of the string to determine directionality.
Byte Order Mark	Button			Use to break Arabic letters that should join without using a space.
Arabic Letter Mark	Button			An Arabic letter mark to fool the system into thinking that there is an Arabic letter - often placed before number sequences without Arabic that should be Bidi'd to RTL.
Left to Right Mark	Button			Left to right mark control character meant to distinguish a piece of text from its surroundings.
Right to Left Mark	Button			Right to Left mark control character meant to distinguish a piece of text from its surroundings.
End Directional Isolate	Button			End Directional Isolate section.
New Line	Button			Adds a line break.
Advanced
Font Backend	Enum		FreeType	The font rendering system to use internally. Options are: • FreeType - FreeType is an open-source library for rendering fonts. • Win32 - Uses the native Windows font renderer.
Auto Direction	Bool		True	If true, the direction of the text will be calculated automatically based on the content. English, for instance, will be left-to-right, while Hebrew and Arabic characters will be right-to-left.
Justify	Bool		False	If true, each line will stretch to fill the whitespace.
Resolution Multiplier	Float		1.0	Multiply the resolution by this factor to supersample the text.