love.graphics.printf 'ing a string with multiple spaces

[chute]

Hi guys,

I think this one will be quick. When I use the following code:

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text = "Test                         Text" --the extra spaces here are intentional
love.graphics.printf(text, 10, 10, 100, "center")

it prints "Test Text" no matter how many spaces are in between the two words. love.graphics.print doesn't have this problem, so I assume it has something to do with the formatting code of printf.

Is there any way to force multiple spaces through printf?

Thanks!

[kexisse]

It's most likely that "center" alignment is trying to justify the text, making it spread out between your text area of size 100px.

[Roland_Yonaba]

Yeah, definitely.

Maybe you can hardcode a text centering function. Assuming a default font width, and a number limit:

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function center(text,number_limit)
    return (number_limit/2)-(text:len()*default_font_width)/2
end

function love.draw()
   text = "whatever"
   love.graphics.print(text,center(text),y)
end

[Boolsheet]

You're right, the code checks for the normal space. You can use one of the other space characters that unicode provides and it won't break into a newline.

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NBSP = "\194\160"
text = "Test".. NBSP:rep(25).. "Text"

You can of course use UTF-8 encoding with your text editor and write the character directly, just don't forget to save without the BOM.

[Roland_Yonaba]

You're right, the code checks for the normal space. You can use one of the other space characters that unicode provides and it won't break into a newline.

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NBSP = "\194\160"
text = "Test".. NBSP:rep(25).. "Text"

You can of course use UTF-8 encoding with your text editor and write the character directly, just don't forget to save without the BOM.

Seems it doesn't works... I just get the word "Text" printed. -_-

[Boolsheet]

Seems it doesn't works... I just get the word "Text" printed. -_-

Move it some more to the right?

[Roland_Yonaba]

Gosh...
Sankyu for the tip, BTW!

[chute]

You're right, the code checks for the normal space. You can use one of the other space characters that unicode provides and it won't break into a newline.

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NBSP = "\194\160"
text = "Test".. NBSP:rep(25).. "Text"

You can of course use UTF-8 encoding with your text editor and write the character directly, just don't forget to save without the BOM.

This helped. I forgot to mention it was an image font. I added \194\160 to the end of the image font and alternated the two spaces (like "Test \194\160 \194\160 \194\160 Text".

Thanks!