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Passing "&" to the function like:

alt1.setStatusText('&')

gives you an error.

I have a few suggestions like.

Would be nice if overlays could be indefinite and returning a object which could be modified during runtime.
The defaults are just some made up things just to show they should be defaults and not required.

/**
 * @type   {object} Text object.
 * @return {object} Overlay object.
 */
const text = alt1.overlayText({
  text: 'Foo', // required
  size: 25, // defaults ???
  group: 'Bar' // defaults 'none'
  color: rgba(r, g, b, a), // defaults white with no transparency
  x: x, // defaults 0
  y: y, // defaults 0
  shadow: false, // show text shadow? defaults true
  time: false // defaults 1000ms
});

Then at a later stage you could modify it and when you don't want the overlay destroy() it.

text.color = rgba(r, g, b, a);
text.x = x;
...
text.shadow = true;
text.destroy();

This can be used to animate text overlays in many ways like blinking red text for warnings, floating combat text and any other way the creator can come up with.

My reasoning for passing in the group with the object is to avoid race condition if you have different loops calling alt1.overLaySetGroup().???

Would also be nice to have a way a few font options like monospace and some better looking font with AA. (Pass it in with the text object?)
Would also be nice if the overlay object returned could have a property with it's width and height for easier positioning.

This can be a new function or for backwards compatibility alt1.overlayText() could check if first argument is an object otherwise it would use the current argument signature.

Simple app to show you the current Vos. Can be configured to show notifications for specific clans.

Click to add app to alt1.

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