Centering Text

09-06-2008, 07:10 PM	#1
Joker	Is there some formula for it?

09-06-2008, 07:16 PM	#2
chobibo	Try looking at cohadar's texttag script on the scripts section, I'm not sure, but it's worth a try to use the formula he used to center texttags.

09-15-2008, 10:54 PM	#3
Joker	But DisplayText scale is different than texttag

09-15-2008, 10:57 PM	#4
Anitarf	Wait, do you mean game messages?

09-15-2008, 11:42 PM	#5
Joker	yeah JASS: DisplayTextToPlayer

09-16-2008, 08:11 PM	#6
Bobo_The_Kodo	0.5, 0.5 is the middle of the screen, increase the first value depending on the length

09-16-2008, 11:37 PM	#7
Joker	1 character = 0.1?

09-17-2008, 12:37 AM	#8
Ammorth	assuming game texts and multiboard text are interchangable (size, font, etc.) the data from my String Parse library w ould suffice for character widths (which is how it works).

09-17-2008, 01:27 AM

Anitarf

Quote:

Originally Posted by Litany

It might be useful for someone to get the sizes of the printable characters for the default font and write a little calculator that gives you the the position a given string should be printed at.

Been there, done that.
I realise now I should have made this a resource long ago, I was originally going to release it as a part of the next version of my cinematic system but then that got delayed indefinitely because I didn't feel like directing a new sample for it. Anyway, here it is as a proper vJass library now: AText