having XyText Centered

i got 5 XyText prims, but i want the text thats going to show up to be in the middle of all of them.

I have an idea oh how:

the string to be sent to the XyText = text

llGetStringLength(text)

then from there i know how many spaces to add infront of it. But the things is, how would i do "ex: 3 * 'space' + text"?

string msg = "Xytext is Old Skool";
integer number_characters = 40;
integer number_spaces = (number_characters - llGetStringLength(msg)) / 2;

integer i;
for(i = 0; i < number_spaces; i++)
msg = " " + msg;

Cheap, but effective.

string func_center_text(string text,integer char_per_line)
{
	string blanks = (char_per_line - llStringLength(text))/2;
	integer i;
	
	for (i=0;i < blanks;i++)
		text = " " + text;
	
	return text;
}

jeff already replied i know but i was writing it in my editor, so i still post it

i like functions

Awesome, TYVVVVM

ok...i feel really stupid, but, how exactly would i implement it?

so, would i do?:

string msg = "Xytext is Old Skool";
integer number_characters = 40;
integer number_spaces = (number_characters - llGetStringLength(msg)) / 2;

integer i;
for(i = 0; i < number_spaces; i++)
{
msg = " " + msg;
}
llMessageLinked(LINK_SET,1,msg,"");

?? Sorry, but its 3am here hehe, brain tired

if unsure use my function, paste it at the very top of your script then when you want to center a text type :

func_center_text("XYTEXT RULES",40); it will return the text centered on 40 charcters

so you can do


strin myoutput = func_center_text("XYTEXT RULES",40);

In your case, you have 5 XyText Prims, so that's roughly 30 characters (2 chars times three faces times five prims).

string msg = "Xytext is Old Skool"; // Edit this to accept whatever message you wish
integer number_characters = 30; // 30 Chars
integer number_spaces = (number_characters - llGetStringLength(msg)) / 2; // Leave me alone

integer i;
for(i = 0; i < number_spaces; i++)
msg = " " + msg;

This is rough code that'll return the proportional number of spaces you want, in addition to the actual message. Then you just stick that string into XyText.

integer display_len = 30;
integer padding_len = (display_len - llGetStringLength( msg )) / 2;
msg = llGetSubString( "                ", 0, padding_len ) + msg;

A little faster than a for loop to build the text. There are 16 spaces between the quotes.

nice lateral thinking Tiger