Print scene by line

[Geolle]

First, thank you for this cool works.

I have an idea, could it be possible that add a function theater.addLineScene() , and this can be used to print the whole scene line at once.
Because sometimes the typing is kind of too slow even I set the maxSpeed to 1.

Thank you for your consideration!

[zhouzi]

Thanks for the kind words 😊

Have you tried to play with the minSpeed/maxSpeed options? If TheaterJS had a .addLineScene method, would you always use it or mix it with the current addScene?

[Geolle]

I have tried the options maxSpeed, even I set it to zero, the scene is still typing, a little bit slow. I just want the whole line show up at once, like the introduction of the background when the show came up, or the narration of the play.
If TheaterJS had such a method, I would like to use it like this:

theater.addActor('Aside')
           .addActor('Bob')
           .addLineScene('Aside:blablabla')
           .addLineScene('blablabla...')
           .addScene('Bob:blablabla...')
           .addLineScene('blablabla')

I don't know if I express myself clearly, my English is not very well.
Thank you for replying.

[zhouzi]

Thanks for the details, it's perfectly clear 😉 This is not something TheaterJS can do right now but it could be considered. It raises a few questions though:

• Is TheaterJS's speed configuration too poor?
• Should TheaterJS automatically speed up for long text?
• Are long text well suited for TheaterJS? (e.g isn't the "mistakes" feature annoying in this case?)

TheaterJS is a typing animation library so I'm a bit concerned about adding a feature that goes against that. For example, a good reason to add it would be if it was tied to a particular emotion (which is something TheaterJS is built for).

Anyway, I haven't been working on TheaterJS for some time now so I won't be personally involved in this but I'd be more than happy to help!