SPTextField off-center

hcabral

Hi,

I've been using SPTextField a lot, mostly with autoscale. I can't seem to find a solution for properly centering the field (not the text) on screen.

I set the pivot points to be in the middle of the text field. Any ideas?

Shilo

I can only assume that your calculation must be off when setting the pivotX or x property of the text field. Or the width of the textfield was unexpectedly changed after you set the pivotX value.

Using the following code works fine for me:

SPTextField *textField = [SPTextField textFieldWithText:@"Idioma"];
textField.border = YES;
textField.color = 0xffffff;
textField.width = 200;
textField.height = 100;
textField.pivotX = 100;
textField.x = Sparrow.stage.width/2;
textField.y = 200;
textField.fontSize = 100;
textField.autoScale = YES;
[self addChild:textField];

You can also center the textfield without relying on pivotX:

textField.pivotX = 0;
textField.x = (Sparrow.stage.width-textField.width)/2;

You may need to provide the code if you would like more help.

hcabral

Hi Shilo,

Well, the code is basically that, it's pretty straight forward. I calculate the pivot after setting the text field width, and by dividing it by 2. I understand it's pretty simple, there must be something wrong with some class I extend or some category. Thanks for the heads up anyway. =)