Centering text: Harder than it seems.

[the_real_seebs]

So, long story short: I have a stack of frames, and I want some to be centered, and I want them to fit within a larger frame.

If I just setpoint them to the larger frame, text is all left-justified.

If I setpoint them using BOTTOMCENTER and don't specify a width, they grow larger than the frame rather than wordwrapping.

If I specify a width, we're back to left-justified again.

So it seems to me that some kind of alignment-within-field settings would be awfully useful. In particular, in at least some cases, I might want something to remain centered when it's more than one line, and I can't see any sane way to get there.

So I'm posting this here because if I asked for advice I'd never get it, but if I make the claim, and I'm wrong, someone will correct me.

EDIT: Come to think of it, everything I want could probably be satisfied by a :SetMaxWidth(), except for the case of wanting multi-line centering.

[Semele]

I think I would prefer any text frame to have the following method.

:SetJustification("left"|"right"|"center")

I know it's entirely possible to do it ourselves with a bunch of frames etc, but yeah. Completeness and all. Plus the fact that multi-line text will default to left (if I remember correctly).

[the_real_seebs]

Strongly agreed. That, plus wrapping on RiftTextfield, and I could have my RP addons pretty much done.

... Trion's slipping. I posted about this like three hours ago, and it's not in PTS changelog yet.

[Verea]

Maybe I misunderstand but:

local text = UI.CreateFrame("Text", "My Text", myaddon.frame)
text:SetPoint("CENTER", myaddon.frame, "CENTER")

Would do exactly what you want? Or?

[Semele]

Maybe I misunderstand but:

local text = UI.CreateFrame("Text", "My Text", myaddon.frame)
text:SetPoint("CENTER", myaddon.frame, "CENTER")

Would do exactly what you want? Or?

The works just fine for single line text (as does "RIGHT"), but any multi-line text will only center/right justify the longest/first line. Everything else will be left justified to the side of the text frame.

It's one thing that's stopped me from implementing a width limited alert text system for KBM. And, to boot, would love escape codes for font color also :P

[Verea]

I see, I only ever use a single line of text for each text frame, so that might explain a lot.

[the_real_seebs]

Yeah. The other thing is, that only works if the single line of text isn't too wide. The moment you :SetWidth() it, it has a fixed width and it is left-aligned in its box.