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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Adding Spacing to Dialog Elements


When working with Dialog Elements, particularly Horizontal Lines, you may wish to add a line (or vertical space) before the dialog element.  You COULD add a separate dialog element for the spacing. But that adds to your scripting and dialog management.  Instead, you should add a <.pm> Code before and after the Prompt for the Dialog Element.

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  • Create the Dialog Element
  • Set to Horizontal Line
  • Choose Alignment:  Left/Center/Right
  • In the Prompt, Right-click and add a Paragraph Marker
  • Type your prompt
  • At the end, Right-click and add another Paragraph Marker

Extended Thoughts:

Optional, you can add formatting around the prompt to control things like Bold and Italics.

Posted by Seth
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