Text alignment in AM is completely off [SOLUTION]

[Oomek]

Is there any way to make text alignment in AM more coder friendly?
Setting Align.Left does not make the text to be aligned to the left. The y offset is wrong too. What's even worse the gap changes depending on the font type used, so it's practicaly impossible in AM to make a neat theme which scales to various resolutions. I need to compensate the gap and vertical alignment manually in pixels which destroys scalability.

[bjose2345]

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/wiki/Scripting-Tips-and-Tricks

hope something there can be help

[Oomek]

I'm aware of that wiki page. Unfortunately it doesn't explain how to overcome the misalignment of text in relation to the text box

[Oomek]

Well, after few failed attempts to overcome the issue I 've decided to fork AM and fix it myself.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULSgTj53ke4

https://github.com/mickelson/attract/pull/331/files

It's up to mickelson now if he wants to include it in his build.

[jedione]

just wanted to say thanks...looks like you really know what your doing.
good work . going to read up.....on it and use..

[verion]

This is soooo awesome. It was always trial-and-error approach with text alignment. Like tweak-reload-tweak-reload-and so on. It's doable - but you have always make correction for text placement.

It will surely help with precise text positioning.

[Oomek]

Now we just have to convince raygun to accept my pull request on github.

[verion]

Is he against it? Or you didn't ask yet?

[Oomek]

He probably didn't see it yet. He's not active recently on either AM forum or GitHub

[Oomek]

Example of improvements in small thin font rendering.
As you can see only character size:20 is rendered properly.
On the left AM Baseline, on the right my build.

Make sure your browser has zoom set at 100% and your windows dpi settings are at 100% as well.
Otherwise all fonts will appear as interpolated.