Use typedef to define de collection type, so it's easy to change, as Hiura suggested here.

Wouldn't vector be more efficient here (instead of list) ? (Insertion is only at the end so it's should be O(1) most of the time, and > iteration is quite frequent in this class so it should be faster with continuous memory.) I know that at this scale it doesn't really > matter which collection you use but it's a good programming practice.

On the style level, using a typedef std::somecollectionsf::Text CollectionType; would allow changing the collection in one line editing.

Hi, excellent work.

I am writing a textbox for my program and all works smoothly except now I want to be able to add a line break to the text when I press the return key. I've tried doing: enteredRaw.push_back("\\n"); when return key is pressed, all elements from enteredRaw get put into a string s and used like thus:

sfe::RichText text(font);
text << sf::Text::Regular << sf::Color::Black <<  s;

however the rendered string is on the same line

When checking the output of the string and even what is rendered on screen, both have "\n" in them, so what am I doing wrong?

There is a graphic problem with the '\n' character. The logic doesn't handle new lines.

This affects the letters which dip beneath the bottom of other characters, such as p or q.
A picture is worth a thousand words, so here is an example of the bug:
(notice how the 'y' in "matey" connects to the 's' in "wish")

Here's my error:
Unhandled exception at 0x0FAA49EF (sfml-graphics-d-2.dll) in SFMLGameStates2.exe: 0xC0000005: Access violation reading location 0xCCCCCCD0. occurred
It occurs in RichText.hpp in RichText::Line::draw(), so I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

The following code shows an unexpected behavior with spaces : text2 is printed as "ab" instead of "a b". (Well, it seems that GitHub has also a bug with spaces... See picture below to get the idea).

#include "RichText.hpp"
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>

int main()
{
    sfe::RichText text;
    text << "a           b";

    sfe::RichText text2;
    text2 << "a           " << "b";

    text.setCharacterSize(25);
    text.setPosition(100, 100);

    text2.setCharacterSize(25);
    text2.setPosition(100, 125);

    sf::RenderWindow window;
    window.create(sf::VideoMode(400, 300), "Rich text");

    while(window.isOpen())
    {
        sf::Event event;
        while(window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            if(event.type == sf::Event::Closed || (event.type == sf::Event::KeyPressed && event.key.code == sf::Keyboard::Escape))
                window.close();
        }

        window.clear();
        window.draw(text);
        window.draw(text2);
        window.display();
    }
}

Both lines (i.e., both text and text2) should display the same.

With one of the newer SFML 2.x version (iirc 2.4) the sf::Text class received outline support. Would be nice if RichText could make use of this. Additionally, setColor has been deprecated in favor of setFillColor in order to differentiate between fill and outline coloring.

Such a change would bumped the minimum required SFML version to something like 2.4.

This is more of a question to the developer than an issue per say:
From my current understanding, a RichText is a matrix, two dimensional vector, of Texts. If my belief is true, which it could certainly be false, I should in theory be able to print individual vectors separately. Is there any way to do this?
Say I want all r's to be red, and all b's to be blue, and c's indicate carriage returns. Could I do the following:
rbbbbbrc
rrbbrrrrc
bbbbbbc
... and so on.
I figure since there's a .setCharacterColor, each character must be it's own Text?
Also, since you have a class for each line, I should be able to print lines individually?
Thank you for your time!