Direct Label : justified position [closed]

Scripting Issues
1

Hello,

I am creating a properties window.
I create some directLabel or DirectInput to show properties, one under the other.
But even I specify the same posX, depending of the size of the text, the label appears at posX-0.05, posX-0.1, …
How can avoid, the change of the size of the box containing the text, and that the label are not aligned?

2

Specify frameSize = (-.5, 10, -0.5, 1.5), or whatever size makes sense for your labels. The parameters are left, right, bottom, top.

3

After several months of absence, I come back on this topic.

In fact, I used frameSize on my declaration, but it seems that the frame goes on the left when I put text.

Let see the code


myFirstLabel=DirectLabel(parent=self.background,text="Nom :" + item.getName(),pos=(-0.15,0,-0.05),scale=.05,text_bg=(0.1,0.1,0.1,1),text_fg=(1,1,1,1),frameSize=(-1,10,-0.3,1.1),frameColor=(0.1,0.1,0.1,1)))
    typeName=""    
    mySecondLabel=DirectLabel(parent=self.background,text="Prix a la vente :" + str(item.getSell()),pos=(-0.15,0,-0.25),scale=.05,text_bg=(0.1,0.1,0.1,1),text_fg=(1,1,1,1),frameSize=(-1,10,-0.3,1.1),frameColor=(0.1,0.1,0.1,1)))

The second Label is decaled on the left, because I think, the text is longer.

How can I avoid this?

Thanks

4

Where you you want it to appear? Vary the frameSize parameters to place the frame in the right place around the text. Or, alternatively, vary the text_pos parameter to place the text in the right place within the frame.

You’ve also got two different background cards: the one created by frameSize (pass relief = None to disable this one) and the one created to match the text (don’t set text_bg to disable this one).

David

5

The problem is that the text inside the directLabel is not always the same. The text shown depending on the item on which user click.

So I can’t place statically the directlabel, and that is why I a am in Anger with directLabel. They grow up, and move left depending of the size of the text.

I hope I don’t need to get the length of the text and provide new position depending of the delta of length between first and second label…

6

I don’t understand what you mean by “move left”. Maybe you want a different alignment, e.g. text_align = TextNode.ALeft?

David

7

nono the directlabel is one step left from the previous directlabel.

Like two box, one at x=0 for the first, and the second x=-5, but on the right of the box, first is at 20, and the second at 20 two.
The first box has now a width of 10, and the second 15.

8

Right, that sounds like text alignment. The default alignment is centered, which means that the x parameter you specify is actually the x parameter of the center of the box. If you specify text_align = TextNode.ALeft, then the x parameter will indicate the left edge of the box, and if the text is wider it will not change the left edge, only the right edge.

David

9

Halleluia, it is exactly what I meant. Thank you!