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# Text Boxes

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**Text boxes** allow you to **show information to the player**, from a dialogue to something you want the player to know.

You can find them on the left side of the screen, in the **library tab.**&#x20;

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## Configuration

Text boxes are customizable, you can change the font, color, size and margins of the text, and even change the image of the box.

To do this you only have to press the configuration wheel on the top bar or just double click the box.

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## Actions

You can set up multiple multiple actions to happen when the player clicks on the box, to set up this, click on the box and then on the action button at the top bar.

The actions you can set up are:

* **Visit an external URL**
* **Subtract X points**
* **Add X points**
* **Go to another scene in the game**


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