Centering text in Gosu

Question

I've been having trouble centering text in the Gosu library to the absolute middle of the screen.

require 'gosu'

class GameWindow < Gosu::Window
  def initialize (width=800, height=600, fullscreen=false)
    super
    self.caption = 'Hello'
    @message = Gosu::Image.from_text(
        self, 'HELLO WORLD', Gosu.default_font_name, 45)
  end

  def draw
    @message.draw(377.5,277.5,0)
  end
end

window = GameWindow.new
window.show 

My first approach was to take the height of the screen, subtract it by the height of the text 45, and then divide by 2. Now that seemed to work when aligning vertically.

However, horizontally is a different story...It seems to be taking the top left corner of the text and centering it which I expected it to do, instead of the middle of the text.

Anyone got a formula for this ? I tried a whole bunch of things, and only came close.

Answer 1

class GameWindow < Gosu::Window
  def initialize (width=800, height=600, fullscreen=false)
    super
    self.caption = 'Hello'
    @message = Gosu::Image.from_text(
        self, 'HELLO WORLD', Gosu.default_font_name, 45)
  end

  def draw
    @message.draw(377.5,277.5,0)
  end
end

Your @message is an instance of Gosu::Image

As far as I can see, the class has a method that allows you to align the image's rotational center to a specified point, draw_rot

Using draw_rot instead of draw should work for you once you've found the center of the frame.