[purple_pixie]

I've been trying to make a nice looking skill select menu, showing the skill names and your current level in it.

Naturally I wanted the skill levels to line up (on the right)

something like:

Select Skills
1. Skill1    0
2. Skill2    3
3. Skill3    1

(Is there anything other than "small" tags that will stop spaces being trimmed? "pre" tags don't exist )

I've tried looping through the array from strlen(array) up to the last index, setting each to 32 (space) and then setting the last to 48+skill level (the integer in ASCII )

But of course different letters have different widths ...

Even setting each level to 9 ( a tab ) keeps them mis-aligned. (And I tried just using 3 tabs ... still no joy)

In case it's relevant, here's my code:

{
    new name[37]="";
        skill=CLASS_SKILLS[PlayerClass[id]][i] // get the skill
        formatex(name,40,"%L",id,SKILLS[skill]) // and its name
        for ( j=strlen(name) ; j < 35 ; j ++ )  // from the end of the string to the end of the array
            name[j]=9 // add a tab
        name[++j]=48+PlayerSkills[id][skill] //  Integer  + 48 =  its ascii value. ( for an integer < 10 )
        name[++j]=0 // terminate the string
        menu_additem(skillmenu,name,skills[i],0,1) // add the option 
}

[thebobjones34]

new len
len = strlen(skill)
if(len > 10 && len < 16) // for the sake of argument lets just say if its 10 characters it needs only 2 tabs
    add(menu,1023,"1. %s        ")
else if(len < 10)
    add(menu,1023,"1. %s            ")
else
    add(menu,1023,"1. %s    ")

Stupid way of doing it, but i think that should get the job done if you set the "If" statments right, im just trying to get you headed in the right direction.

[_Master_]

Best way of doing that is NOT doing that. Text contains variable-length chars, for ex: "i" takes less space than "W". So if your text would be "iii" it would be aligned, but if it's "WWW" tho the length is the same, it would break alignement. Adding white spaces would do nothing unless you add them to the string itself and in specific amount. If your text is dynamicly computed then it's a dead end.

[EDIT] I could be wrong but I think there is a "%t" or something like that which adds white spaces but I doubt it measures the "screen size" of the text...

[purple_pixie]

Well that just plain annoys me :-D

Thanks for the help, people ...

I don't suppose you can change the font to one that's ... er, what's the word for a font with equal-sized letters?


Ah well, I'll settle for having it not line up ...

I could swear that WC3 mod's "ChangeRace" menu has the XP aligned on the right ... but then the source code doesn't seem to do it explicity.
Maybe I'm comparing the source of a version I haven't played to what I remember playing.

Ah well.

[Alka]

Originally Posted by _Master_ [EDIT] I could be wrong but I think there is a "%t" or something like that which adds white spaces but I doubt it measures the "screen size" of the text...

^t - You can use it to add a white space...

[purple_pixie]

Is that just the same as putting whitespace in the string?

(i.e. setting an array index to 32)

[_Master_]

The font is called "fixed".
The alignment you mentioned is also to the left but the text is displayed on the right side of the screen.

@Alka: Right. Thx.