[4.5.9 Metroidvania SOLVED] Text Box overlap

[9Panzer]

I have an issue I could use a hand with. I have a tile that starts the NPC text. So I have the player spawn ontop of it and it triggers the text. Works really well - unless the player spams the "b" button rather then waiting for the text to finish writting. Then it will reset the text string.

Tile Code:

ChangeActionStep player1_object, #$00
ChangeFacingDirection tempA, #FACE_RIGHT
StopMoving temp, #$FF, #$00


LDY temp1
LDA temp2
BEQ +isEvenCt
;; is an odd ct, so looking in collisionTable2
LDA #$00
STA collisionTable2,y
JMP +doneWithTileUpdate
+isEvenCt
LDA #$00
STA collisionTable,y

+doneWithTileUpdate

LDA npcTrigger
ORA #%00000001
STA npcTrigger

DrawBox #BOX_1_ORIGIN_X, #BOX_1_ORIGIN_Y, #BOX_1_WIDTH , #BOX_1_HEIGHT, #TEXT_NPC, screenText

RTS

If the player spams the button it screws the text up pretty good. Here is an example video:

 

[9Panzer]

@Bucket Mouse on discord suggested this fix which seems to be work well enough. After

dontSkipNPCtext:

I added:

LDA textHandler
BNE +skipNpcText

This causes the text not to overlap but it pauses the next text from typing briefly. Its a compromise