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draw_set_align

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Sets the horizontal and vertical alignment of the drawn text.

Arguments

Argument	Type	Usage	Description
halign	Constant.HAlign	Required	The horizontal alignment to set.
valign	Constant.VAlign	Required	The vertical alignment to set.

Returns

N/A

Example

The following code draws text in the middle of a button.

draw_self();
draw_set_color_alpha(c_yellow, 1);
draw_set_align(fa_center, fa_middle);
draw_set_font(fnt_Button);
draw_text(x + sprite_width div 2, y + sprite_height div 2, "Click me!");

// reset the color
draw_set_color_alpha(c_white, 1);

Update history

• 24.6.0 - Created a function to set horizontal and vertical text align at once.