B4J Question Why Can't CENTER ALIGNMENT center multi-line text?

[Diceman]

I find it annoying when I enter more than 1 line of text in a button or a label and want each line to appear CENTER but they display as CENTER LEFT instead.
Is there a workaround for this? Or am I missing something? I wrote a small app to demonstrate this. The output is shown below. Each of the 3 views have the text CENTER aligned, but they are really appear to be CENTER LEFT aligned whenever there is more than 1 text displayed in the view.

 

[TILogistic]

CSS can help you:

Sample:

 

[Diceman]

Thanks for the reply.
Is this CSS solution of yours cross-platform compatible?

I noticed your example with the yellow buttons are still left justified. Do you know what the CSS command is to center the text?

This is what it should look like:

TIA

 

[TILogistic]

test:

-fx-alignment: center ;

 

[TILogistic]

 

[TILogistic]

Is this CSS solution of yours cross-platform compatible?

No

this use JavaFX CSS

JavaFX CSS Reference Guide

This document describes the JavaFX Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for JavaFX 8 and explains the styles, values, properties and associated grammar.

docs.oracle.com

text:

JavaFX CSS Reference Guide

This document describes the JavaFX Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) for JavaFX 8 and explains the styles, values, properties and associated grammar.

docs.oracle.com

 

[Diceman]

Unfortunately it has to work on B4J, B4A and B4i. ?

I would have thought the Alignment property set to CENTER would have handled multiple lines properly.
It looks like I will have to eliminate views displaying more than 1 line of text if I want the text centered properly.

 

[TILogistic]

view font and center:

 

[TILogistic]

Unfortunately it has to work on B4J, B4A and B4i. ?

I would have thought the Alignment property set to CENTER would have handled multiple lines properly.
It looks like I will have to eliminate views displaying more than 1 line of text if I want the text centered properly.

if you want cross-platform, you can do it by code using B4Xview

 

[TILogistic]

SAMPLE:

Dim mTextView As B4XView
mTextView = CreateLabel("")
mTextView.SetTextAlignment("CENTER","CENTER")

Private Sub CreateLabel(Event As String) As B4XView
Dim Lbl As Label
Lbl.Initialize(Event)
Return Lbl
End Sub

 

[TILogistic]

see B4J

Dim jo As JavaObject = Label3
jo.RunMethod("setTextAlignment", Array("CENTER"))

 

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search in forum:

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[Diceman]

Thanks for the feedback. I am trying your examples to see how it works.
I also think CharSequence may be the answer. I will have to play with Alignment("ALIGN_CENTER") tomorrow.

 

[Erel]

Check BBLabel or BBCodeView