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

Diceman

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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.

 

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Diceman

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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
 
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TILogistic

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Is this CSS solution of yours cross-platform compatible?
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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

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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
 
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Diceman

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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.
 
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TILogistic

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

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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.
 
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