[PATCH] Multiline centered text

[fcxSanya]

Currently text centered by the first line position, so if there is multiple lines, each line will have the same indention as the first one instead of be centered individually.

[fcxSanya]

Attached patch should fix this issue and should allow to properly display multiline centered text.

[Philip Taylor]

I get some minor compiler errors:

../../../source/gui/IGUITextOwner.cpp:123: error: ‘>>’ should be ‘> >’ within a nested template argument list
../../../source/gui/CGUI.cpp:977: error: no matching function for call to ‘min(unsigned int&, size_t)’

On the main menu, if I click the WFG logo in the bottom-left corner it pops up an "About 0 A.D." box. The "0" icon in the centered title bar is incorrectly aligned - presumably something is wrong with the sprite code but I can't tell what...

This seems like a pretty large change to the code - is it really all necessary just to get centered text? I've tried hacking up a much simpler patch to CGUI::DrawText to center all text, which looks like it basically works. Am I missing problems with this approach? (That patch needs some more work to support left-aligned and right-aligned text but that doesn't look hard.)

[Philip Taylor]

alternative approach (incomplete)

[kingadami]

Defect #1386 is a duplicate of this one. I like Philip's approach better than mine while I was looking into 1386 before I found this one.

My alternate approach was to just change the IGUITextOwner::CalculateTextPosition method. This method involved looping through all of the text calls again (which I didn't like) to find each line and computing the offset.

I attached patch ​0adTicket_723.patch which completes Philip's patch for right and left aligned text.  The "text_align" property was added to tooltips as well since they would produce a warning because they use the GenerateText method as well.  The default is left align which makes them look like they always have.

[historic_bruno]

I tested the patch, it seems to fix the alignment issues as described. But I noticed one bug: dropdown text is now centered instead of left-aligned as it was before.

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Now what would be even nicer is if text that's too long to fit on a single line (without wrap points) would automatically wrap to the next line instead of disappearing out of the control. Here's an example to try:

messageBox(500, 300,
            "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789",
            "Test", 2);

The first chunk is very long, doesn't wrap and will extend beyond the bounds of the text box. It seems hyphens and spaces can trigger a wraparound but nothing else, so e.g. long paths without those characters will probably not fit in a text box. This is also what #1386 was describing.

It's not always practical to trim the text before display either, since the script logic doesn't know the font being used, how wide the characters will be when rendered, etc.

[kingadami]

Replying to historic_bruno:

I tested the patch, it seems to fix the alignment issues as described. But I noticed one bug: dropdown text is now centered instead of left-aligned as it was before.

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Now what would be even nicer is if text that's too long to fit on a single line (without wrap points) would automatically wrap to the next line instead of disappearing out of the control. Here's an example to try:

messageBox(500, 300,
            "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789",
            "Test", 2);

The first chunk is very long, doesn't wrap and will extend beyond the bounds of the text box. It seems hyphens and spaces can trigger a wraparound but nothing else, so e.g. long paths without those characters will probably not fit in a text box. This is also what #1386 was describing.

It's not always practical to trim the text before display either, since the script logic doesn't know the font being used, how wide the characters will be when rendered, etc.

I looked into why the dropdown text is centered now, and it is because the style it uses StoneDropDown has a text_align property set to "center". Look in the file binaries/data/mods/pub/gui/common/common_styles.xml:247. I guess there must have been some kind of existing bug causing it to not center before. Let me know if you want to changed the style to left align.

I will work with your second example and add logic to wrap really long strings without hyphens or spaces as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

[kingadami]

Finished Philips patch by adding support for left and right aligned text.

[kingadami]

Updated the patch after talking with historic_bruno on IRC

[ben]

In 13051:

Fixes multiline text alignment, fixes #723. Patch by kingadami.
Adds text alignment to tooltips, fixes text alignment for dropdowns.