SystemText dimensions are 0 (width/height)

[mise]

Hi,

I'm trying to center text in a Container. Currently using align='center' and text.center(), but i'm not getting the text to center in height as well.

I can't get it to work because the text dimensions are 0:

var text = new game.SystemText('text')
text.addTo(this.stage);

// text.width === 0

 

Thanks,

Mise

[enpu]

Hi @mise

In SystemText you can set align property to center, take a look at this example:

https://www.panda2.io/examples#systemText-props

Note that SystemText is really designed to be used just as debugging or placeholder text, for actual in-game texts i would suggest to use Text class.

[mise]

yeah, I already switched to Text() because I also needed the wrapping feature.
There is still something going on with the SystemText dimensions though, but it's up to you if you want to look into it