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yungjui

textAlign in 0125 question
Jul 22^nd, 2007, 7:35pm

Hi all,

I try to use the 2nd parameter of textAlign() as introduced in 0125, such as textAlign( CENTER, CENTER);

It works really well with the three-parameter version of text().

e.g. text("Example", 100, 100);

And the text would be centered at (100, 100);

However, it doesn't seem to work very well with the five-parameter version of text().

e.g. text("Example", 100, 100, 50, 50);

I suppose the text should be centered at (125, 125);

However, it is centered at (125, 100) instead.

Does anyone know why or is this a bug?

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: textAlign in 0125 question Reply #1 - Jul 22^nd, 2007, 11:45pm from the reference: "The vertical alignment setting is ignored with the variation of text() that draws text inside a box. Text in a box is always drawn with the equivalent of TOP as its vertical alignment." http://processing.org/reference/textAlign_.html

l33tminion YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: textAlign in 0125 question Reply #2 - Feb 10^th, 2008, 11:17pm That raises the question of _why_ that is the behavior. Being able to center text within a box seems to be a reasonably common thing to want to do. Moreover, there doesn't seem to be any way to figure out how high a piece of text will be once word-wrapping, line-breaks, and so on are rendered.

fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: textAlign in 0125 question Reply #3 - Feb 11^th, 2008, 8:19pm l33tminion wrote on Feb 10^th, 2008, 11:17pm: That raises the question of _why_ that is the behavior. oh that's an easy one. i haven't had time to implement it, and nobody else has taken the time to do it themselves and contribute a fix.

l33tminion YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 3	Re: textAlign in 0125 question Reply #4 - Feb 11^th, 2008, 9:52pm Got it. Is there a ticket for this issue already? I'll try looking at the source and see if I can figure things out.

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