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Enes F.
Enes F.

Reputation: 535

How to align text in HaxeFlixel?

I have a FlxText object which has properties like:

var CharHP:FlxText = new FlxText(1000, 500);
CharHP.Text = "HP: " + "9999";
CharHP.width = 300; CharHP.height = 200;
CharHP.alignment = "center";

I'm trying to align CharHP to center and I expect these coordinates:

1000+(300/2), 500+(200/2)

However, the text is at:

1000, 500

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1543

Answers (2)

Richard Oliver Bray
Richard Oliver Bray

Reputation: 1123

This works for me. Not sure why I don't have to import FlxTextAlign to get this working but feel free to refer to the API docs for more info. https://api.haxeflixel.com/flixel/text/FlxTextAlign.html

import flixel.text.FlxText;

...

var text = new FlxText( 300, "Your text to center", 24); // the field width argument is important
text.alignment = FlxTextAlign.CENTER; // This can be LEFT, RIGHT, JUSTIFY

Upvotes: 0

larsiusprime
larsiusprime

Reputation: 935

Text alignment centers the visual display of the text itself rather than the text box itself. The text box itself will always be "at" the x/y you supply in the constructor or by setting x and y directly.

Example:

[Left aligned text        ]
[       Right aligned text]
[   Center aligned text   ]

In all three cases the coordinates and size of the text box itself are the same, but the visual position of the text itself is different.

Upvotes: 2

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