Dialove, Dialog library for LÖVE

Usage

local Dialove = require('Dialove')

function love.load()
  dialogManager = Dialove.init({
    font = love.graphics.newFont('your-font', 16)
  })
  dialogManager:push('Dialog content') -- stores a dialog into memory
  dialogManager:pop() -- requests the first pushed dialog to be shown on screen
  
  -- show() does both things, but don't do this:
  dialogManager:show('Dialog content')
  dialogManager:show('Dialog content')
  dialogManager:show('Dialog content') -- only this one will be shown

  -- use this approach instead:
  dialogManager:show('Dialog content')
  dialogManager:push('Dialog content')
  dialogManager:push('Dialog content')
end

function love.update(dt)
  dialogManager:update(dt)
end

function love.draw()
  dialogManager:draw()
end

function love.keypressed(k)
  if k == 'return' then
    dialogManager:pop()
  elseif k == 'c' then
    dialogManager:complete()
  elseif k == 'f' then
    dialogManager:faster()
  elseif k == 'down' then
    dialogManager:changeOption(1) -- next one
  elseif k == 'up' then
    dialogManager:changeOption(-1) -- previous one
  end
end

function love.keyreleased(k)
  if k == 'space' then
    dialogManager:slower()
  end
end

Screenshots

Some of these require custom parameters in Dialove.init()

dialogManager:show(randomText())

---

dialogManager:show({text = randomText(), title = 'The title'})

---

dialogManager:show({
  text = randomText(),
  title = 'The title',
  options = {
    {'Option 1', function () --[[ do stuff ]] end},
    {'Option 2', function () --[[ do stuff ]] end},
  }
})

---

dialogManager:show({
  text = randomText(),
  title = 'The title',
  image = love.graphics.newImage('face.png')
  options = {
    {'Option 1', function () --[[ do stuff ]] end},
    {'Option 2', function () --[[ do stuff ]] end},
  }
})

---

dialogManager:show({
  text = randomText(),
  background = {
    image = love.graphics.newImage('old-paper.png')
  }
})

---

dialogManager:show({
  text = randomText(),
  background = {
    image = love.graphics.newImage('corner.png'),
    type = Dialove.backgroundTypes.clamped
  }
})

Dialove supports a Tree/List-like structure for dialog flows. Consider this:

Dialogs 1, 3 and 8 will give you a choice, the rest will be shown in the given order. That said, these are the possible paths:

• 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
• 1, 2, 4, 7, 8, 13, 14
• 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 13, 14
• 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14

This may be specially useful for RPG games where the story can have many of different paths. For this example, the code would be something like:

dialogManager:show({text = 'Dialog 1', options = {
  {
    'Choose Dialog 2', function ()
      dialogManager:show('Dialog 2')
      dialogManager:push('Dialog 4')
    end
  },
  {
    'Choose Dialog 3', function ()
      dialogManager:show({text = 'Dialog 3', options = {
        {
          'Choose Dialog 5', function ()
            dialogManager:show('Dialog 5')
          end
        },
        {
          'Choose Dialog 6', function ()
            dialogManager:show('Dialog 6')
          end
        }
      }})
    end
  }
}})

dialogManager:push('Dialog 7')

dialogManager:push({text = 'Dialog 8', options = {
  {
    'Choose Dialog 9', function ()
      dialogManager:show('Dialog 9')
      dialogManager:push('Dialog 10')
      dialogManager:push('Dialog 11')
      dialogManager:push('Dialog 12')
    end
  },
  {
    'Choose Dialog 13', function ()
      dialogManager:show('Dialog 13')
      dialogManager:push({
        text = 'Dialog 14',
        image = love.graphics.newImage('face.png')
      })
    end
  }
}})

API

Dialove.init([table])

table supports the properties:

• font: LÖVE Font
  • The font to use
• viewportW: number
  • Will normally be your canvas width
• viewportH: number
  • Will normally be your canvas height
• margin: number
  • Space between the screen edge and the dialog background
• padding: number
  • Space between text and the edge of the dialog background
• verticalPadding: number
  • Top and bottom paddings
• horizontalPadding: number
  • Left and right paddings
• cornerRadius: number
  • The radius of corners for color/texture backgrounds
• lineSpacing: number
  • Defaults to 1.4
• optionsSeparation: number
  • Force the space between the last line of text and the options (pixels)
• numberOfLines: number
  • Number of lines used for all dialogs (not including the line(s) for the options)
• typingSound: LÖVE Source
  • Typing sound, ignored for punctuation (. , ; : ? !)

dialogManager.[push|show]([text|table])

table supports the properties:

• text: string
  • The content of the dialog that will be spelled
• title: string
  • Usually the character name
• background: table
  • May contain the following properties:
    • color: table
    • image: LÖVE Image
    • type:
      • Dialove.backgroundTypes.normal (default)
      • Dialove.backgroundTypes.tiled (not yet implemented)
      • Dialove.backgroundTypes.clamped
• titleColor: table
  • Color for the title text, if any
• textColor: table
  • Color for the content text
• selectedOptionColor: table
  • Color for the selected option text
• unselectedOptionColor: table
  • Color for the unselected option text
• numberOfLines: number
  • Same as in defaultNumberOfLines in Dialog.init(), just at dialog level
• autoHeight: boolean
  • When true, the dialog height will fit all the text and or the image
• position: string
  • top or middle (defaults to a bottom position)
• options: table
  • A list of tables where each one is a string at index 1 and a function at index 2, as shown in the examples
• image: LÖVE Image
  • Usually the character face or an item