GameMaker String function characters

[AGW]

What I'm looking for is to create, for example:
If a string looks like this: This text is /rred.
Then it should look like this: This text is red.

 

[jo-thijs]

What I'm looking for is to create, for example:
If a string looks like this: This text is /rred.
Then it should look like this: This text is red.

Hi and welcome to the GMC!

This is actually something fairly difficult to do in GameMaker,
but luckily there are a bunch of extensions out there that attempt to do these kind of things.
For example: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/428/happytear-text-dialogue-engine

 

[AGW]

Hi and welcome to the GMC!

This is actually something fairly difficult to do in GameMaker,
but luckily there are a bunch of extensions out there that attempt to do these kind of things.
For example: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/assets/428/happytear-text-dialogue-engine

That actually seems good, but that's for GM:S 1.4, and I have GM:S 2.
I should have specified that on this post.

 

[jo-thijs]

That actually seems good, but that's for GM:S 1.4, and I have GM:S 2.
I should have specified that on this post.

Sorry, I somehow didn't see that you replied until now.

So, what's not working when you try to use it in GM:S 2?
I'd imagine most things concerning the text coloring would be the same in GM:S 1.4 as in GM:S 2.