Little spacing between boxes even with spacing set to 0

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Little spacing between boxes even with spacing set to 0

#1 Post by felsenstern » Mon Nov 01, 2021 6:54 pm

Hiya,

I'm trying to display several lines of text in a vbox. Something like this:

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vbox:
	xsize 600
	spacing 0
	for q in list_of_textlines:
		text q
Unfortunately even with spacing set to 0, when the text is displayed within the box, I always can tell where one box ends and the next begins due to the slightly larger gap in the line spacing. Is there any other parameter or setting which I could change to remove this little gap?
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Re: Little spacing between boxes even with spacing set to 0

#2 Post by philat » Mon Nov 01, 2021 9:13 pm

spacing can have a negative value. Alternatively, you can increase the line spacing for the text, I suppose.

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Re: Little spacing between boxes even with spacing set to 0

#3 Post by Imperf3kt » Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:13 pm

Have you checked its not being caused by scaling?

What does it look like in fullscreen? What about at different resolutions?
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Re: Little spacing between boxes even with spacing set to 0

#4 Post by felsenstern » Tue Nov 02, 2021 2:19 am

Imperf3kt wrote:
Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:13 pm
Have you checked its not being caused by scaling?

What does it look like in fullscreen? What about at different resolutions?
the gap stays relatively the same no matter if I resize the game window or switch to full screen.
philat wrote:
Mon Nov 01, 2021 9:13 pm
spacing can have a negative value. Alternatively, you can increase the line spacing for the text, I suppose.
This seems to do the trick... at a value of spacing -5 I can't distinguish the line spacing between boxes from the normal line spacing. It still feels a bit dirty using this method...
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