Getting text from a function to center in a window.

[NocturneLight]

I was setting up a second window at the top of the screen to show information for the player and succeeded. I've gotten it to say whatever I input in the code.

I have one thing that annoys me though. When it displays, it looks like this:

Summer 10
5 days remaining


As you can see, the text aligns to the left. I'd like for the Summer 10 portion to be centered with the 5 days remaining portion.

When screens and functions are involved how would one go about doing this? Or is it even possible to do such a thing?

I've posted what I think is the relevant code to help solve this. I appreciate the help.

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init python:
        def retrieveSeasonDate(Season, Date, DateDeadline):
                if Season == 1:
                    Month = "Spring"
                elif Season == 2:
                    Month = "Summer"
                elif Season == 3:
                    Month = "Fall"
                elif Season == 4:
                    Month = "Winter"
                elif Date >= 15:
                    string = "You dun goofed up. Change the date."
                    
                    
                if Date >= 1 and Date <= 15 and DateDeadline >= 1 and DateDeadline <= 15:
                    DaysRemaining = DateDeadline - Date

                string = "{font=berylium rg.ttf}{size=+5}" + Month + " " + str(Date) + "{/size}\n" + str(DaysRemaining) + " days remaining{/font}"
                return string

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label DayOne:
    scene Green
    with Dissolve(2.0)

$ date = retrieveSeasonDate(2,10,15)
show screen info
"Testing."
"Testing. Testing."
hide screen info

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screen info():
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5 
        yalign 0.0
        add "logo.thumbnail.png"
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.0
        text "[date]" 

[jw2pfd]

The easiest way is to have each line be a different element. You want to start with changing what you return from the function:

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                a = "{size=+5}" + Month + " " + str(Date) + "{/size}"
                b = str(DaysRemaining) + " days remaining"
                return a, b

This doesn't affect how your function is called, but only what is returned. This returns a tuple instead of a single string. In your screen code, then you break it into two different elements like this:

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screen info():
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.0
        add "logo.thumbnail.png"
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.0
        text "[date[0]]" xalign 0.5 font "berylium rg.ttf"  #I removed the font tag from the string earlier and put it here
        text "[date[1]]" xalign 0.5 font "berylium rg.ttf"

You can edit the style properties for each line of text separately and properties like alignment are relative to the element that they are in which is a vbox in this case.

[NocturneLight]

The easiest way is to have each line be a different element. You want to start with changing what you return from the function:

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                a = "{size=+5}" + Month + " " + str(Date) + "{/size}"
                b = str(DaysRemaining) + " days remaining"
                return a, b

This doesn't affect how your function is called, but only what is returned. This returns a tuple instead of a single string. In your screen code, then you break it into two different elements like this:

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screen info():
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.0
        add "logo.thumbnail.png"
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.0
        text "[date[0]]" xalign 0.5 font "berylium rg.ttf"  #I removed the font tag from the string earlier and put it here
        text "[date[1]]" xalign 0.5 font "berylium rg.ttf"

You can edit the style properties for each line of text separately and properties like alignment are relative to the element that they are in which is a vbox in this case.

That definitely centered it. Thanks again!