Centering text in textbox [Solved!]

[yuucie]

I poked around and found an old thread asking the same question, but the answers didn't work for me (and I didn't want to necro) so here's the question again. Sometimes I want to center text in the textbox (not on the full screen, so centered "dialogue" is out of the question), and I don't want to assign it to a character only as I want to use it for various events (so defining Character is probably not what I'm looking for).
I also do not want to black out the screen and have it appear NVL style, so I don't think NVL is the kind I'm looking for.

So far, I tried to make:

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$ cen = what_text_align=0.5

so when I want to center text:

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"Centered Text in Textbox" with cen

the problem is, it's not working. I don't think what_text_align is the right code, but I can't seem to find the one I'm looking for. Help please?

[ArachneJericho]

Does this help?

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/FAQ ... _screen.3F

[yuucie]

Does this help?

http://www.renpy.org/wiki/renpy/doc/FAQ ... _screen.3F

the centered tag isn't what i'm looking for, but the second part is! Thanks!

EDIT the code isn't working. Sigh... I have it written as:

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   $ cen = Character(None, what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5)

and when I write dialogue:

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"Centered Textbox dialogue" with cen

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cen "Centered Textbox dialogue"

neither of them work.

So I've tried defining it as a character:

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define cen = Character(None, what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5,  text_xpos=0.5)

which worked but not in the way I want it too ;__;



I can't believe I'm having so much trouble with something that seems so simple, haha..

[xavimat]

Maybe you need also: window_xalign=0.5, #Centers the window horizontally

[yuucie]

Maybe you need also: window_xalign=0.5, #Centers the window horizontally

added it in, but didn't seem to do anything ;_; OTL (thanks for helping tho!)

[Chaotic]

I have centered text in my project too and what I did was I put this in the options.rpy under the text (font) section so I knew it was to do with the text/textbox:

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style.default.xalign = 0.5

It works perfectly for me and centers the text into the middle

EDIT: Answered the question wrong but still useful for those who want to center all text...OTL

[yuucie]

I have centered text in my project too and what I did was I put this in the options.rpy under the text (font) section so I knew it was to do with the text/textbox:

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style.default.xalign = 0.5

It works perfectly for me and centers the text into the middle

EDIT: Answered the question wrong but still useful for those who want to center all text...OTL

Ah yeah, the problem is I only want my text to be centered in specific events, not all the time. But thanks! I'll keep trying to center it properly @_@

[Asceai]

The problem is the structure. You have a window (that's the transparent-black section of the screen where the text goes) and it is styled with window_... params by the Character function. Inside that is a vbox. Inside the vbox is the text, which is styled with the what_... params. Centering the window does nothing because the window fills the screen horizontally. Centering the 'what' text does nothing because the 'what' text is contained within the vbox which is exactly large enough for the 'what' text. You can't style the vbox by passing params to Character.

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+------------------------------------------------+
|Window                                          |
|+----------------+                              |
||Vbox            |                              |
||+--------------+|                              |
|||What          ||                              |
||+--------------+|                              |
|+----------------+                              |
+------------------------------------------------+

Even if 'what' is centered, it's only centered within vbox, so you can see why what_xalign = 0.5 does nothing.

Here's a solution:

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style say_vbox xfill True

This will expand the vbox out to fill the window.
Then

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define cen = Character(None, what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5)

should do the trick.

[yuucie]

The problem is the structure. You have a window (that's the transparent-black section of the screen where the text goes) and it is styled with window_... params by the Character function. Inside that is a vbox. Inside the vbox is the text, which is styled with the what_... params. Centering the window does nothing because the window fills the screen horizontally. Centering the 'what' text does nothing because the 'what' text is contained within the vbox which is exactly large enough for the 'what' text. You can't style the vbox by passing params to Character.

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+------------------------------------------------+
|Window                                          |
|+----------------+                              |
||Vbox            |                              |
||+--------------+|                              |
|||What          ||                              |
||+--------------+|                              |
|+----------------+                              |
+------------------------------------------------+

Even if 'what' is centered, it's only centered within vbox, so you can see why what_xalign = 0.5 does nothing.

Here's a solution:

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style say_vbox xfill True

This will expand the vbox out to fill the window.
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define cen = Character(None, what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5)

should do the trick.

oh my goodness, thank you so much for the explanation. I like knowing what each code is supposed to control, which is why I was so confused why some of them didn't work the way I thought they did, but with your diagram everything makes so much more sense.

Thank you!! Just for clarification to anyone else with the same problem, I wrote

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style.say_vbox_xfill = True

into my options.rpy script, and it works beautifully!



Thank you so much Asceai (and everyone who tried to help too!)

[Laiska]

I don't mean to necro, but how does one go about doing this but with vertical centering? i.e. centering the dialogue of a specific character along the y-axis, but inside the text box?

Defining a character like

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define cen = Character(None, what_xalign=0.5, what_text_align=0.5)

and then doing this

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style.say_vbox_xfill = True

produces the intended result, sort of, but then the text box expands to fill the whole screen!

Is there a way to achieve this without changing the size of the textbox?

[xavimat]

Have you tried style.say_vbox.xfill = True or style.say_vbox.yfill = True ?

I think style.say_vbox.yalign = .5 could work.

More options to try:
Something like style.window.ymaximum = 300 in options.rpy?
Or maybe, in the character definition:
define cen = Character(None, window_ymaximum=300)