Overview

Introduction

The text system in CoshUI is built around TextNode-based widgets — Label, Button, RichLabel, and others — plus its own lightweight markup language called CoshML, inspired by BBCode. CoshML lets you style parts of a string by wrapping text in tags, rather than styling the whole Node uniformly.

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Text Properties

There are quite a few properties that let you change how text is rendered through CoshUI — text color, font, size, alignment, whether it wraps or hides when overflowing, and more. These apply to any TextNode, and set the default style for all the text on that Node.

To find the details, check the Text Properties section.

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Fonts

Aside from setting a font directly on each Node, you can register your own fonts and change the font every TextNode falls back to by default.

To learn more, check the Fonts section.

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CoshML

If you need more than one style within a single string — like bolding a single word, or coloring part of a sentence — CoshML tags let you do that inline, without splitting text across multiple Nodes. This is primarily used through RichLabel.

To learn more, check the CoshML section.