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Drawing Text - Reverse Style

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Matt Vinyl(Posted 2007) [#1]
Evening all,

I need to draw text in a way which I think is pretty standard, but can't work out how to do it in BMax.

It is for 'currency' in my puzzle game, whereby you start off with:

£0.00

But you can get up to:

£40.00

Now, what I'd like to do is have the text move 'left' when the extra character is required when the value goes over £9.99, as opposed to right. Does that make sense?

Let me know if I need to explain further. I've toyed with SetOrigin / SetHandle, but to no avail as yet.

Cheers!
M.


Bremer(Posted 2007) [#2]
How about doing something like this:

Graphics 640,480

Local money:Int = 0

While Not KeyHit(KEY_ESCAPE)
Cls

	Local moneyTmp:String = "$"+money+".00"
	DrawText moneyTmp,200-TextWidth(moneyTmp),200
	Delay 100
	money :+ 5

Flip
Wend
End


This way you decide on the most left pixel where the text will be and then deduct the total width in pixels of the text. This should keep everything left aligned.


Matt Vinyl(Posted 2007) [#3]
Ooh, looks good, will give it a try.

I didn't think about concatenating strings into it, as I was thinking how I would do the decimal point and symbol.

Will try now... ;)


Grey Alien(Posted 2007) [#4]
It's called Right Alignment and is standard for numbers on reports and spreadsheets etc.


Matt Vinyl(Posted 2007) [#5]
Grey Alien - I should really have thought of that, being a guy who spends his working day creating reports in various software... :0


Grey Alien(Posted 2007) [#6]
;-) I wrote a report generator from scratch including graphical display in Delphi for some business software. Had to have a right align option :-)