Aligning Text In A Button

[the_wesley_watkins]

I have a column of buttons and I need all of the text to be aligned so it looks neat.

I have all the text that is suppose to go within the button in a string variable and I've attempted to use the TEXT_WIDTH() and LEN() commands to manipulate these aspects of the string in order to make each have the same text width and length.

Right now, I have a variable called "space" in a specific spot within the string which I use to manipulate the string.

If TEXT_WIDTH(str$) < maxstringwidth THEN
space$ &= " "
str$ = "blah blah" & space$ & "blah blah blah"
END IF

Any help?

[Dutchman]

On 09 Feb 2015, 16:37 Mr. K. wrote"

Actually automatic button size equals: (20 + text_length) x (12 + text_height)

Does that help?

[the_wesley_watkins]

Not really. I've already read that thread.

I want it to look like this.

But the code I used for this isn't very feasible. I had to go through and manually do each button, adding spaces where necessary to make it appear like this. For the finishing product, I need to be able to loop have all the buttons appear by a loop because sometimes the text within the button changes and it needs to be able to do this automatically.

[Dutchman]

It can be done with mono-spaced font.

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'Align, by Dutchman, july 2015
'----- Presets
Random$.min=3 'letters
Random$.max=12 'letters
Aligned$.Space$=" " 'minimum space
'
'----- set display
FontSize=20 ! FontName$="Courier"
GOSUB Initialise
'
'----- Main
FOR n=1 TO 20
  word1$=Random$
  word2$=Random$
  print Aligned$(word1$,word2$,250)
NEXT n
END
'
'===== Functions and Subroutines
DEF Aligned$(w1$,w2$,width)
'w1$+w2$+Space$ should be shorter then width
in$="" 
DO
 txt$=w1$&Space$&in$&w2$
 in$&=" "
UNTIL TEXT_WIDTH(Txt$)>=width
RETURN txt$
END DEF
'
DEF Random$
txt$=""
FOR i=1 TO min+RND(max-min+1)
  txt$&=CHR$(97+RND(123-97))
NEXT i
RETURN txt$
END DEF
'
Initialise:
SET OUTPUT FONT NAME FontName$
SET OUTPUT FONT SIZE FontSize
RETURN

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[Dutchman]

I have extended the test-program with buttons, to be sure.
This is a second version due to a small error in the first

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'Align, by Dutchman, july 2015
'----- Presets
Random$.min=3 'letters
Random$.max=12 'letters
Aligned$.Space$=" " 'minimum space
SET BUTTONS CUSTOM
'
'----- set display
FontSize=18 ! FontName$="Courier-Bold"
GOSUB Initialise
'
'----- Main
width=250
FOR n=1 TO 20
  print Aligned$(Random$,Random$,width)
NEXT n
PRINT ! PRINT "Press 'Enter' to continue."
INPUT in$
'---- with buttons
TEXT CLEAR
dy=3*fontsize ! bh=MIN(dy-5,25+fontsize)
FOR n=1 TO 5
  BUTTON n TEXT Aligned$(Random$,Random$,250) AT 10,n*dy SIZE width,bh
NEXT n
FILL COLOR 1,0,0
BUTTON n TEXT "QUIT" AT 10,n*dy SIZE width,bh
DO ! UNTIL BUTTON_PRESSED(STR$(n,"#"))
END
'
'===== Functions and Subroutines
DEF Aligned$(w1$,w2$,width)
'w1$+w2$+Space$ should be shorter then width
in$="" 
DO
 txt$=w1$&Space$&in$&w2$
 in$&=" "
UNTIL TEXT_WIDTH(Txt$)>=width
RETURN txt$
END DEF
'
DEF Random$
txt$=""
FOR i=1 TO min+RND(max-min+1)
  txt$&=CHR$(97+RND(123-97))
NEXT i
RETURN txt$
END DEF
'
Initialise:
SET OUTPUT FONT NAME FontName$
SET OUTPUT FONT SIZE FontSize
SET BUTTONS FONT NAME FontName$
SET BUTTONS FONT SIZE FontSize
DRAW COLOR 1,1,0
FILL COLOR 0,0,1
RETURN

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[Dutchman]

The version which scales completely with font-size and word-length can be found at viewtopic.php?f=20&t=1123