Centering by Word in Canvas

[David McFarlane]

Brendan,

Look at the Canvas.CalculateTextSize topic in the E-Basic Help facility.

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At 10/8/2013 09:32 AM Tuesday, Brendan T wrote:
>I have a small problem in my experiment design I was hoping you guys 
>could shed some light on.
>
>My project uses the canvas function to display both words and 
>circles around the word (big enough to be in the periphery) but the 
>problem is that canvas doesn't allow you to align words to the 
>center. It produces words on the canvas as such:
>
>cnvs.Text Display.XRes/2, Displaly.YRes/2, c. getattrib("WordList1")
>'This pulls a word from wordList1 and puts it in the center of the 
>screen such that the first letter is centered at XRes/2, YRes/2
>
>
>This centers the image based on the number of pixels on the screen, 
>which is fine (and necessary) for my circle but aligns the words 
>such that the first letter of the word is at the center. Words can 
>be easily aligned in the display feature, but canvas is necessary 
>for my other stimuli.
>
>Does anybody know how this might be fixed such that the word is 
>centered in canvas, regardless of word length? Is it possible to 
>overlay a regular display with canvas? Or perhaps a way to factor 
>word length in and subtract half of it from XRes/2?
>
>I appreciate any feedback and I hope the issue is clear.
>
>Thank you!!
>Brendan

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