Getting character index of last visible character?

Unity Engine
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Hey all,

Is there any way to obtain the actual character index of the last visible character? In short, I have a teletype effect that I want to have call a function every time it reaches an invisible link tag. So something like:

if(textbox.maxVisibleCharacters >= textbox.textInfo.linkInfo[linkIndex].linkIdFirstCharacterIndex - 1) {
    ...
}

Of course this doesn’t take invisible characters into account, so I would need either the max visible character’s real index, or the link info’s visible equivalent.

Any help would be much appreciated!

EDIT: Solved for now by just keeping track of all tags and their lengths, but would still love a proper solution for this for future reference :slight_smile:

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Last visible character of the text or link or each lines?

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Of the text as a whole.

4

You should be able to use textInfo.lineCount to get the last line. Then last visible character index of that line and lastly, lookup that character in the characterInfo.