Text alignment in MultiLineEditbox ?

[orlay]

Where should I paste:

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<HorzFormat type="CentreAligned" />

in TaharezLook/MultiLineEditbox in TaharezLook.looknfeel file to align text in a MultiLineEditbox?

[CrazyEddie]

Hi,

Currently the Editbox type widgets do not support alignment options for the text. We have an open ticket for this already, so hopefully it will get added some time soon.

CE.

[orlay]

What component do you advise me to use for display multi line and aligned text ?

I tried with static text, I could align it but I can only display the text that fits on the screen because the VertScrollbar did not work.

[CrazyEddie]

What component do you advise me to use for display multi line and aligned text ?

StaticText

I tried with static text, I could align it but I can only display the text that fits on the screen because the VertScrollbar did not work.

What do you mean it did not work? Do you mean it did not show up automatically? Do you mean you enabled it and it did not show up? Do you mean it shows up but does not function?

In case you did not enable it, you have to enable it by setting the "VertScrollbar" property to "True".

If you already did this, then all the usual questions we end up asking apply here, and you'll need to post some more information - especially the bit we always ask for but almost nobody provides Yes, I refuse to ask for it by name!

CE.

[orlay]

ok, sorry.

It show the vertical scrollbar but when I try:

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static_cast<CEGUI::StaticText *> (myStaticText)->getVertScrollbar()


My IDE show ( error: ‘StaticText’ is not a member of ‘CEGUI’) as is logic.

My actual solution:

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static_cast<CEGUI::MultiLineEditbox *> (myStaticText)->getVertScrollbar()


myStaticText is an static text but I used it as MultiLineEditbox.

[CrazyEddie]

The key thing to understand is that there is no StaticText class within the library. When you create a 'StaticText' of some description, you're actually creating a CEGUI::DefaultWindow, which is adapted by way of a CEGUI::WindowRenderer object to supply some of the additional function of what you see visually as a StaticText (in this case, management of rendering areas depending upon some settings, and the scrollbar functionality).

To access this 'additional' functionality via the CEGUI::Window pointer you have, it is necessary to use the properties interface using the Window::setProperty and Window::getProperty functions. So to enable the scrollbar:

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myStaticText->setProperty("VertScrollbar", "True");

To reiterate; the specific window type used for StaticText is CEGUI::DefaultWindow - this class is not compatible with CEGUI:: MultiLineEditbox. You should never ever cast a Window pointer to a type that it does not actually represent.

CE.