text centered in the middle of the bottom part of the screen(solved)

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text centered in the middle of the bottom part of the screen(solved)

#1 Post by glithch »

this might seem really easy and simple but i havent touched renpy in a long time and documentation isnt helping me so i thought i would ask here.

neither
define gui.dialogue_text_xalign = 0.5
nor
define gui.dialogue_xpos = 600

really center it proprely.
i need the text to format appropriately. not just "start' at the beginning. but that it fills the appropriate space in the middle
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Are you trying to make the text "justified"?
Use an xalign and additionally add an xfill True
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Imperf3kt wrote: Thu Dec 12, 2019 5:33 pm Are you trying to make the text "justified"?
Use an xalign and additionally add an xfill True
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i know this is a late answer, i was doing focused on the art' but where exactly do i add that xfill?

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Which text are you talking about.
When I suggested an xfill before, I forgot to ask.

Do you mean the dialogue text?
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Imperf3kt wrote: Mon Dec 23, 2019 3:52 pm Which text are you talking about.
When I suggested an xfill before, I forgot to ask.

Do you mean the dialogue text?
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edit: i tried using justify True in style say_dialogue but it wont work

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is it ok if i bump this after some time?

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Bumps are fine most of the time.
I forgot to reply and currently I am away from my laptop.

I would suggest looking for things related to the text box in gui.rpy, but I can't currently suggest what as I don't have access to any copy of renpy at the moment.
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The defaults are:

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define gui.dialogue_xpos = 268
define gui.dialogue_ypos = 50

## The maximum width of dialogue text, in pixels.
define gui.dialogue_width = 744

## The horizontal alignment of the dialogue text. This can be 0.0 for left-
## aligned, 0.5 for centered, and 1.0 for right-aligned.
define gui.dialogue_text_xalign = 0.0
You have 268 pixels of left margin by the dialogue frame pushed that side. Set it to 0.
You should also probably change the width of the dialogue frame from 744 to your window size.
then set dialogue_text_align to 0.5.
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gas wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 8:58 pm You have 268 pixels of left margin by the dialogue frame pushed that side. Set it to 0.
You should also probably change the width of the dialogue frame from 744 to your window size.
then set dialogue_text_align to 0.5.
this just pushes my text to the left, to the point where most of the message gets cut off.
Imperf3kt wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 7:12 pm Bumps are fine most of the time.
I forgot to reply and currently I am away from my laptop.

I would suggest looking for things related to the text box in gui.rpy, but I can't currently suggest what as I don't have access to any copy of renpy at the moment.
i did that multiple times and tried a lot of different things but still cant figure it out

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Can you show a mock screenshot of what you want and a screenshot if what you currently have along with the relevant code you have right now?
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Imperf3kt wrote: Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:01 pm Can you show a mock screenshot of what you want and a screenshot if what you currently have along with the relevant code you have right now?
sorry for how messy it looks, just stitched it fast, ignore the clock.
https://imgur.com/a/MpOe6In
i dont know what code would i have to post, other then just changing the textbox size etc i didnt really touch anything.

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Are these normal dialogue lines? They look as menu voices. Or just "text". Or whatever.

Anyway:

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define gui.dialogue_xpos = 0.5
define gui.dialogue_text_xalign = 0.5
That's the example in the gui doc, and it worked for me.
Did you try to erase permanent data too from the launcher?
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gas wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:09 pm Are these normal dialogue lines? They look as menu voices. Or just "text". Or whatever.

Anyway:

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define gui.dialogue_xpos = 0.5
define gui.dialogue_text_xalign = 0.5
That's the example in the gui doc, and it worked for me.
Did you try to erase permanent data too from the launcher?
omg finally that worked. i had no idea you could put decimals in xpos! it was a regular number so i assumed i cant just switch it to a decimal

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#14 Post by Imperf3kt »

There's two forms of numbering, when you use whole numbers, it changes the position based on the number of pixels.
If you use a decimal, it's a percentage, with a range of 0.0 to 1.0, 1.0 being 100%, 0.5 being 50%, 0.0 being 0%, etc.
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