Trouble Aligning Text

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#1

Hi all,

I’m trying to position this “continue…” text in the bottom-right of the screen and I can’t get it to work.  Text doesn’t move regardless of the align value.  I’ve read Rob’s text positioning tutorial (https://coronalabs.com/blog/2014/02/11/tutorial-methods-for-positioning-text/) multiple times but I’m still missing something.

I need to have it right-aligned because translated text will likely lead to longer strings.

 --Setup Text options local textColor = {0.72, 0.9, 0.16, 1} local textOptions = { text = "", font = native.newFont("FSEX300.ttf"), fontSize = 40, x = xStart, y = yStart, width = 950, height = 0, align = "left" } --Draws continue button in bottom-right of terminal screen function DrawContinueButton() print ("Drawing Continue..") textOptions.text = "Press any key to continue..."; local continueLabel = display.newText(textOptions) continueLabel.anchorX = 0; continueLabel.anchorY = 0; --Setting this in textOptions wasn't working for some reason continueLabel.width = display.viewableContentWidth; continueLabel.align = "right"; continueLabel.x = display.contentCenterX/2 continueLabel.y = maxLinePosY + 110 continueLabel:setFillColor(unpack(textColor)); --Green continueLabel:toBack(); end

Thanks in advance!

Dave.

#2

Don’t you have to have the align setting set to “right” in ‘textOptions’ before calling display.newText?

Otherwise it creates the text and then you’re trying to re-align it by setting .align = “right”, which isn’t a thing.

Then you also seem to reset any alignment by setting anchorX to 0. For right alignment, you’d use anchorX = 1.

#3

Setting alignment in textOptions and changing anchorX to 1 worked perfect.  Thanks!

#4

Don’t you have to have the align setting set to “right” in ‘textOptions’ before calling display.newText?

Otherwise it creates the text and then you’re trying to re-align it by setting .align = “right”, which isn’t a thing.

Then you also seem to reset any alignment by setting anchorX to 0. For right alignment, you’d use anchorX = 1.

#5

Setting alignment in textOptions and changing anchorX to 1 worked perfect.  Thanks!