Left Align Button Text?

[arkos]

Hey guys,

I am trying to left align the text on a bunch of buttons. I found the function setTextXOffset() but it doesn't seem to do squat.

Also when I call this function is it supposed to kill the centered alignment and make it left aligned with the offset or is the offset taken from the center?

Why doesn't it do anything?



Please let me know.

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((CEGUI::PushButton*)getWindow("facility_btn12"))->setsetTextXOffset(5.5);

Note that I shifted the text an extreme 5.5 and it has no effect. I am using windows look if it matters

[Pompei2]

For the StaticTexts, there is the property named "HorzFormatting" with and an enum with the same name IIRC where you can choose the alignment. Maybe there is the same in the PushButtons, I don't know, but you should look for this.

[arkos]

Hey pompei2,

thanks for the reply. I know about the StaticText alignment and I often use the HorzFormatting to center the text from the default left alignment. Unfortunately, push button doesn't seem to have anything like this.

The offset X looks like it has promise, but doesn't seem to work as advertised.

[lindquist]

You can add this functionality yourself by modifying the pushbutton looknfeel

[arkos]

hey lindquist,

thanks for the reply. That looks like it would solve the problem, however, that would alter ALL of the buttons rather than a select few.

To work around this I am assuming I would have to define a look and feel of a special "L_button" which would be the same as the regular button except for the vert alignment. Then I would change the look n feel in the layout editor as well, so that I could create the left aligned buttons there. Is this what you were thinking?