Left-Justify BUTTON Text

[steezware]

Not sure if this is a Nomads or a Language issue, but...

Is there built-in Pvx logic or maybe a trick to have the 'text on a BUTTON control left-justified?

[martinp]

I don't think you can with the dynamic properties ' 

you could add btn.ctl'text$=PAD("Ok",10)  some spaces ...

What are you trying to do exactly.

[steezware]

Yep, expression PAD(" Button Text", 2400) works great ... until you resize the panel, then Nomads (or someone) moves the text over from the left.

What I am trying to do is display button text left-justified, it's that simple.

[martinp]

So on the nomads panel itself you can set the button to have text left justfied in the font section of button.

[Loren Doornek]

Check the manual page for the OPT= options for a BUTTON at:

https://manual.pvxplus.com/PXPLUS/directives/button.htm#Mark4

There are some caveats discussed there, such as the need for 3D or 4D if using button images.  In Nomads, there is a radio button on the Font screen, but that might not work if you don't 3D enabled.

[steezware]

I now see I wasn't clear enough. Of course I can justify an IMAGE to the left, right, top or bottom of the button text, but my button has no image. And regardless of the image-justification setting the text is still centered on the button.

So, what I'm looking for is a way to left-justify text on a button that has no image.

[James Zukowski]

In NOMADS, on the Font/Clr tab, you can select whether the text is Left/Center/Right justified.

[martinp]

Do you have these options?

[steezware]

Got it - thx!

My client is on an older version of Pvx/Nomads and those options do not exist.

I checked the online manual and it does, indeed, mention font alignment under the Nomads section, but does not note when that feature was added to  PxPlus...

https://manual.pvxplus.com/PXPLUS/NOMADS%20Graphical%20Application/Creating%20Panel%20Controls/Button%20Control/Overview.htm

...and also in the online manual, for button properties there is 'BitmapPosition but nothing about a font-position property...

https://manual.pvxplus.com/PXPLUS/control_object_properties/button_properties.htm

Again, thank you to Martin and James and others for sharing this information with me.

[James Zukowski]

In the online manual, the entry for the BUTTON directive includes the option for a FNT= specification, with details in the 'FONT' mnemonic. For things to work, it seems you also have to include OPT="A" and use the '4D' mnemonic. E.g.:

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print '4D',
B_ID=100
button B_ID,@(10,5,10,3)="Click Here",opt="A",fnt=",,R"
While you can specify the justification when creating the button, it seems you can't change it, though you can retrieve and change other font attributes:

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F$=B_ID'Font$
B_ID'Font$="Courier New,-18,B"
Overall, to left-justify the text, all you need to include when manually creating a button is to include the OPT="A". Not sure what you can do with old NOMADS...