Dynamic colour draw.SimpleText()

[Cpt Rawr]

Hi,

I would like to know if there is a built-in function that allows me to change the colour of the output text similar to how chat.AddText does it.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/111841/10d8c9c7-604b-4405-b03f-87af34483689/image.png

I would like to make the text "OK" appear another colour to the "[ ]" without using multiple draw.SimpleText statements as this would be a huge ball ache.

If anyone knows how I would achieve this that would be great.

Thanks

[SneakySquid]

function draw.YeehawText(font, x, y, xalign, yalign, ...)
    font = font or "DermaDefault"
    x = x or 0
    y = y or 0

    local nx, col = x, color_white

    for i, arg in ipairs{...} do
        if (IsColor(arg)) then
            col = arg
        elseif (isstring(arg)) then
            local w, h = draw.SimpleText(arg, font, nx, y, col, xalign, yalign)
            nx = nx + w
        end
    end
end

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "", function()
    draw.YeehawText("DermaLarge", 50, 50, nil, nil, Color(255, 0, 0), "Red, ", Color(0, 255, 0), "green, ", Color(0, 0, 255), "blue.")
end)
don't judge my variable names

[JakeFromStateCS]

As far as I know, this isn't possible.
You could create your own function like chat.AddText that takes a variable amount of arguments then loops through the arguments to perform multiple draw.SimpleText draws:
function draw.SimpleTextColored( ... )
local args = { ... };
for _,arg in pairs( args ) do
--Do some stuff here
end;
end;

[Cpt Rawr]

This works, thank you very much!