When a field is configured to display "Rich Text", it can contain text spans that are links, use different fonts, or include inline images. Rich Text is described in the reference manual here.
Rich Text is represented as a Lil table, and can be constructed like any other table so long as it has the appropriate columns. For example,
myField.value:insert text font arg with "Apple" "" "theAppleCard" end
Remember, of course, that fields need to be locked for their hyperlinks to be clickable. Unless you define your own link[] handler for a field, clicking a link will call the go[] built-in function with that "arg" value, which conveniently serves either to navigate to cards by name or to prompt the user to open URLs in a new browser tab.
The "RText" utility interface (linked above) offers a number of convenience functions for creating and manipulating Rich Text tables. The "rtext.make[]" function offers a more concise alternative to the above:
myField.value:rtext.make["Apple" "" "theAppleCard"]
In the interactive docs for a variety of modules I use this sort of approach to automatically generate the index in the title card's view[] event handler:
bullet:image["%%IMG0AAYADQAAAAB49Pz8/HgAAAA="]
i:select c:key t:value..widgets.title.text where value..widgets.title from deck.cards
index.value:raze each row in rows i
rtext.make["" "" bullet],
rtext.make[" "],
rtext.make[("%s\n" format row.t) "mono" row.c]
end
Does that help?
I'll just ask you my next doubt already, if you don't mind.
I'm fiddling with the Mini Twine deck using a twee file of an old Twine game I made. What I wanted to do is keep a log field with the narrative text as the player makes their choices, but so far I'm having trouble leaving the link lines out of it.
Example:
How do I break the game field string and leave the verb choices out of the log field? Like so (tampered with example):
Thank you again!
I think this would be difficult in the general case without making some assumptions about the structure of passages. Hyperlinks can appear anywhere within the text of a Twine passage, so it's not simply a matter of hiding or trimming off a suffix of the output to remove the listed "verbs".
If there's demand for it (and it looks like there might be) I could look into developing a more complete and robust .twee manipulation module for Decker, and maybe even a story mode specifically designed for interoperation with Lil. I don't think I'll have time for it this month, though.
It's not quite what you're asking for, but you might be able to find some useful ideas in this thread where I discuss parser-based IF systems; my example deck features an output log which distinguishes user input from responses with bold/plain fonts.
that's fine! we're in no hurry at all :) it's great to see decker growing with each question brought here by its users. have a great december!