Text in Choice Menus Not Centering? [SOLVED]

[Milkymalk]

Sorry, I'm a bit of a moron at coding, I'm more of a script kiddie. Where exactly? I don't see any sort of thing in my code that defines the text inside of a button. And I'm not sure where to place that myself.

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                    button:     ## <--- this is the button
                        action action
                        style "menu_choice_button"
                        xysize(440,53)
                        text caption style "menu_choice"    ## <--- this is the text inside the button

Do this:

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 text caption:
    style "menu_choice"
    yanchor 0.5
    # additional attributes here

Please read the introduction to screen language in the docs if you intent to customize your screens or make your own ones. You should at least know where to put stuff even if you don't know yet what you want to put there.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

You can add attributes to practically any element by putting ":" behind it and giving it a block (indented lines that come directly after it).

[narutochats]

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                    button:     ## <--- this is the button
                        action action
                        style "menu_choice_button"
                        xysize(440,53)
                        text caption style "menu_choice"    ## <--- this is the text inside the button

Do this:

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 text caption:
    style "menu_choice"
    yanchor 0.5
    # additional attributes here

Please read the introduction to screen language in the docs if you intent to customize your screens or make your own ones. You should at least know where to put stuff even if you don't know yet what you want to put there.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html

You can add attributes to practically any element by putting ":" behind it and giving it a block (indented lines that come directly after it).

Yeah no I definitely understand enough to know what the button is/other things are and how to change their attributes haha. I know that much, along with a good handful of things. I had looked through the screens section but there wasn't anything in there to help me with changing text attributes, at least from what I saw. I knew text caption had to do with the text but the "text caption" and "style menu choice" being in the same line was throwing me off. (I had gotten that code from another troubleshooting post, I didn't create it myself.)

But yes, this worked for me! Ended up setting it to ~0.35 instead, and it was perfect. Thank you so much for the help!

[Milkymalk]

What you did was a workaround, never the best solution. If yanchor 0.5 doesn't center the text, it means the ypos is off.

Try yalign 0.5 instead, is it still centered?

You can either put all attributes in the same line as the element itself, or you can make a block for it, no difference. A block is better to read though if there are several attributes.

[narutochats]

What you did was a workaround, never the best solution. If yanchor 0.5 doesn't center the text, it means the ypos is off.

Try yalign 0.5 instead, is it still centered?

You can either put all attributes in the same line as the element itself, or you can make a block for it, no difference. A block is better to read though if there are several attributes.

Still the same problem. I'm thinking maybe it's just something to do with my button. I defined it as the correct size and everything (and even if I didn't it'd just stretch to fit the "xysize") so I don't understand why it's causing this error.

[Milkymalk]

It must be either the position or the anchor of the text as nothing else influences the alignment inside the button. Maybe some strange style problem. Anyway, it's too much work to check it "remote-controlled"

[narutochats]

It must be either the position or the anchor of the text as nothing else influences the alignment inside the button. Maybe some strange style problem. Anyway, it's too much work to check it "remote-controlled"

Ah, well thank you for your help anyways! Hopefully nothing else is randomly out of place like that. At least I know what to do now.