Multiline text alignment in UI

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Hi guys. Newby here. Sorry if this is silly questtion, but I am getting bold solving this with no prevail.

I have a multiline text. But it's aligned to the left. Any way to center align it?

<CODE>

var aboutWin = new Window("palette", "About", undefined);

var st = aboutWin.add("statictext", undefined, "", {multiline: true } );

st.text = "Some long long long text paragraph here";

st.characters = 30;

</CODE>

How do I center align it?

Thank you.

[UQg]

You can play with the container's margins (here: the window), the alignment of the text with respect to its container, and its justification.

Xavier.

var aboutWin = new Window("palette", "About", undefined);

aboutWin.margins = [40, 20, 40, 20];

var st = aboutWin.add("statictext", undefined, "", {multiline: true } );

st.text = "Some long long long text paragraph here";

for (var k=0; k<4; k++) st.text+=st.text;

st.alignment = ['center', 'top'];

st.characters = 30;    // fixes the width of the text, not its total length

st.justify = 'left';

aboutWin.show();

[Tomas Sinkunas]

emm, not sure that this is what I am after. This mothed seems to center entire text block to the center of the window. However, I only need the text itself to be center aligned in that block. Does this makes anmy sence?

[UQg · Accepted solution]

You can modify the values... for instance

st.justify = 'center';

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Yes, oh man, I was probably blind. I did tried that method, but it didn't work:)

Now it works. Thank you for reminding me this:)

However, oddly enought, this doesn't work in CS3. CS4 and above seem to obey the justification.

Any ways, thanks for input.

[msongz]

test some codes using justify , works on estk , but not works on ae 2018

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Yeap, I think it broke in CC version. No more justification