Chat as one block of comments

[pedro-gerhardt]

Hi there!
I've seen this awesome project in a Tsoding video and using the SubChat captions, I noticed that when trying to move the stream comments, I would have to move each line at a time. Would it be possible to allow the user to move the whole block of stream comments as a unique element or is it a Youtube tool limitation?
Thanks in advance for the attention. 🙂

[rexim]

I kinda doubt that. From what I understood how ytt works (but I could be wrong, please, somebody correct me), you can only style one block of text at a time. So to be able to mix up different colors and also wrap around the text, we kinda have to split them into separate blocks.

[Kam1k4dze]

We can do this, and I will do this later. This, and changing the text alignment and anchor point should improve the mobile experience when text is scaled up to 50%. The text will still move backwards after dragging, this is a limitation of YouTube and cannot be changed.

[rexim]

@pedro-gerhardt recently this was implemented by @Kam1k4dze in 1b7bfd0 and "deployed" in the latest Tsoding VOD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLq-QvLWuoc

I think it's fair to say that this issue is resolved.

[ihabunek]

It took me a bit to realize you need to set verticalSpacing to -1 to enable the single-block mode. Perhaps you could document this? Thanks for this tool.