Allow multiline caption in gui elements

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Allow multiline caption in gui elements

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As the title says, it would be great to be able to use " \n " to create multiline caption for gui elements

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Yeah, I've tried this before, it just displays \n exactly as you typed it.
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GalactusX31 wrote:As the title says, it would be great to be able to use " \n " to create multiline caption for gui elements
You need to set the label style to allow multiline:
http://lua-api.factorio.com/latest/LuaS ... ingle_line

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Thank you very much, this info solve my big headache

Does this work in the same way for the caption of the buttons?

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GalactusX31 wrote:Thank you very much, this info solve my big headache

Does this work in the same way for the caption of the buttons?
No, buttons don't support multiline text.
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Is there any chance that this property will be added to the gui buttons as well in the future?

and if you can not, is there any way to "emulate" the multiline in the caption of the buttons? I would appreciate being told how it is, thanks

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GalactusX31 wrote:Is there any chance that this property will be added to the gui buttons as well in the future?

and if you can not, is there any way to "emulate" the multiline in the caption of the buttons? I would appreciate being told how it is, thanks
Most likely no. Multi-line text adds a lot of overhead to a widget when buttons never need it in the base game.
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