This has been requested before.. but: Multi-line Text alignment

[gws923]

Hi there.  I'd just like to re-raise this issue.

I would love to be able to have an sf::Text with a multiline string have a function to "center" the text.

In other words
it would look like
this.

It is very much a bummer that I have to use a separate sf::Text for every line of my ~100 line credits...

Any update on this idea?

[eXpl0it3r]

Multi-line text alignment wouldn't look much different than your own custom solution with multiple sf::Text, the only difference is that the later you have to write it.

It's something we might investigate further at one point, but there are a lot more important features and issues to take care of first.

[Laurent]

Multi-line text alignment wouldn't look much different than your own custom solution with multiple sf::Text, the only difference is that the later you have to write it.

It wouldn't look different, but it would draw with a single vertex array instead of one per line

[eXpl0it3r]

It wouldn't look different, but it would draw with a single vertex array instead of one per line

True, but it felt more like the emphasis was on using multiple sf::Text objects as opposed to having performance issues.

[gws923]

Multi-line text alignment wouldn't look much different than your own custom solution with multiple sf::Text, the only difference is that the later you have to write it.

It's something we might investigate further at one point, but there are a lot more important features and issues to take care of first.

Word.  I figured it was a low priority sort of issue.  Guess I'll get crackin'!

[PupperGump]

Any progress on this yet? I honestly don't see any benefit to using a single text object since you can't adjust the position of the next character without messing with the sf::Text object itself. My other idea was to use whitespace as filler for each newline and remove a space for each character entered, but that's hard to make work.

[Hapax]

Feel free to give this a shot:
https://github.com/Hapaxia/SfmlTextAline

It's not fully feature-rich yet (it's missing styles and outline, for example) but it's in a working state.