Centering by Word in Canvas

[Brendan T]

Thank you very much! That is definitely what I'm looking for!

On Tuesday, October 8, 2013 10:32:35 AM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> 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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