The text is alignel left. How can I center this text without help of other libraries like crawlspaceLib, which brokes my visuals [import]uid: 8303 topic_id: 26024 reply_id: 326024[/import]
Depends what you mean.
Initially, display.newText() prints text from display.TopLeftReferencePoint. (imagine all of your text is in an invisible rectangle. The snap point is in the top left.)
Immediately after, the reference point (snap point) is moved to the center of the rectangle. (display.CenterReferencePoint)
So if you want to center the text, what you should be doing is:
local multiText = display.newText("whatevs", 0, 0, 400, 200, "Georgia Italic", 24)
multiText:setReferencePoint(display.CenterReferencePoint) -- apparently not required, but it's good practice if you want to know reference points at a glance.
multiText.x, multiText.y = halfW/2, halfH+50
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Thanks
richard9
“you are my man”!
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er…it’s “the man”. very awkward sentence otherwise [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26024 reply_id: 105304[/import]
Hi, I was to quick, it doesnt work, the text is still left aligned
like this:
some text some text some text
some text some
some [import]uid: 8303 topic_id: 26024 reply_id: 105306[/import]
Hmm. You’re right. I think somebody else posted about this too. It seems that when you use multiline text via display.newText(), you are limited to left alignment. This is a bug. I just filed it. [import]uid: 41884 topic_id: 26024 reply_id: 105313[/import]
I filed it too, weeks ago, still no reply 
Peach, can you check out if this can be fixed anytime soon?
Case 14250
If using multiline text, lines within the text are not centered if using display.CenterReferencePoint
Also check:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/04/12/how-align-multiline-text
Also, Fogbugz at bugs.anscamobile.com seems to be down since a while?
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