Does anyone know the function paramater format for "Print" to display longer on screen?

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Trying to make it so the message stays on screen longer after running Print.

Print<native><public>(Message:[]char, ?Duration:float = external {}, 
    ?Color:color = external {}):void

is the declaration of a string in verse. I have tried every possible way (tuples, manually entering parameters) to call this with all 3 parameters, but get an error every time.
Does anyone know how to properly call Print and how the parameter format needs to be?

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Hey Adam! Just took some time to figure this out! I will definitely be switching to using Print() instead of Logger.Print()

Here’s the structure that you need, for both the duration & color! :slight_smile:

There’s also a massive list of web colors within the Verse digest we can access just make sure to include the import path!

Print("ELIMS-TO-WIN: {EliminationsToWin}", ?Duration := 5.0, ?Color := color{R:=255.0,G:=0.0,B:=0.0})

# Module import path: /Verse.org/Colors/NamedColors
Print("ELIMS-TO-WIN: {EliminationsToWin}", ?Duration := 5.0, ?Color := CornFlowerBlue)

Just a screenshot of my Print() with the full red color.
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Thank you @spankysully1, will test this out now and reply here with my results!

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Note that the ?Color syntax with the question mark denotes the parameter as optional. Means you can leave out ?Color or ?Duration you don’t need both.

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It worked! Does anyone know what to input for ?Duration to make it infinitely display on the screen?

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So Print is intended to be used for debugging, not for UI. So if you want to do UI work, you’ll need to start diving into VerseUI.

I started with this:

And you can see it used in my quick proof of concept for my last game jam using it here: Tactics Game Proof of Concepts | Talks and demos