Sphere - Pokemon Style Text.

function game()
{
Text("Hello World. This is my text box.");
Text("It is written to show how to make character by character text.");
Text("Hold the right key to speed up the text.");
}

function Text(text)
{

//Load all the fonts and window styles here. Use your current ones from the script you sent me.
var font = GetSystemFont();
var windowStyle = GetSystemWindowStyle()


//Predefine all the positioning stuff so that you can easily change everything at once.
var x = 20;
var y = 160;
var height = 10
var width = GetScreenWidth() - 50;

//this variable is used for the character by character bit.
var OutText = "";

//Used to define how fast or slow the text is.
//the lower the slower.
var speed = 1;

var OldSpeed = speed;

if(IsMapEngineRunning())
{
RenderMap()
}

//Get time is used to make sure that the text goes by at the same speed for a set time.
var start_time = GetTime();

for (var s = 0; s <= text.length; s++)
{
  ClearKeyQueue();
  
  if(GetTime() > start_time + speed)
  {
    //Refresh the start time variable so it has a new time so the script keeps going.
    start_time = GetTime();
    
    //Rvert the speed back to the old speed.
    speed = OldSpeed;
    
    //draw the window
    windowStyle.drawWindow(x, y, width, height);
    
    // text.slice is a string method which slices the string at a set point. Starting at the first parameter and ending at the last
    //In this case we need it to change as time goes by so we use 's' because it gets incremented.
    OutText = text.slice(0, s);
    
    //draw the text.
    font.drawTextBox(15,153,width + 10, height + 20, 0, OutText);
        
    if(IsKeyPressed(KEY_RIGHT))
    {
    speed -= 1
    } 
    
    Wait(speed * 100);
  }
  FlipScreen()
}

ClearKeyQueue();
while(!IsKeyPressed(KEY_Z) && OutText.length == text.length);
}

function ClearKeyQueue()
{
  while (AreKeysLeft()) GetKey();
}

function Wait(milliseconds)
{
  var start = GetTime();
  while (start + milliseconds > GetTime())
  { 
  if(IsMapEngineRunning())
  {
        UpdateMapEngine();
        RenderMap();
        }
  }
}