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Re: Centering text in a rectange [message #35341 is a reply to message #35340]

Fri, 03 February 2012 17:21

jerson
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Registered: June 2010
Location: Bombay, India

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This is how I would do it. The gurus out here might have simpler ways to achieve the same

1- Get size of text to be displayed. You will use the GetTextSize() function to achieve this

2- Get the size of the rectangle using GetSize()

3- X position centered text will start at
PosX = (Rect_X_extent-Text_x_extent)/2
PosY = (Rect_Y_extent-Text_Y_extent)/2

4- put the text there.

You might need to consider rotation of text differently.

Maybe there are utility functions that achieve the same, but, I do not know as I'm a relative newbie

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