Display Text Bug

jamie_c

I'm working on a project where I am displaying text on screen, relative to the scene. The text is displayed from within a switch actor (see screen shot attached) and is set up to flush left from 30 pixels in from the left side of the screen. However it always and only displays centered at that location, neither the flush left or flush right options seem to make a difference. Is this a know bug? Can anyone else duplicate it?

tatiang

Confirmed that those three buttons don't change the alignment.

jamie_c

@tatiang, thanks for checking. I'll go report.

jamie_c

@GeorgeGS, just wanted to tag you here so you are aware of this. I've reported it as well, it's bug 1693

Socks

As temporarily fix you could try opening up the actor's XML file and manually changing the alignment, this is assuming the buttons in the Text Display behaviour are not writing the alignment to the actor's XML.

left . . . . . ."alignment">0<
centred . . ."alignment">1<
right . . . . ."alignment">2<

tmann

Turn on wrap inside actor and you will get 'an' effect - still basically wrong it seems but alignment is changing.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@jamie_c said:
@GeorgeGS, just wanted to tag you here so you are aware of this. I've reported it as well, it's bug 1693

I'll put the bug in the slack thread.

jamie_c

@socks, i'll give that a try this evening. Good idea.

jamie_c

Saddly updating the XML file directly didn't have any effect. The type stays centered even if I change Alignment to 0.

jamie_c

@Lost_Oasis_Games said:

@jamie_c said:
@GeorgeGS, just wanted to tag you here so you are aware of this. I've reported it as well, it's bug 1693

I'll put the bug in the slack thread.

Thanks!