TextField:setLayout

Available since: Gideros 2017.10

Class: TextField

Description

Change the layout parameters for this TextField

   Layout parameters can contain the following fields:

• w,h: Width/height of the area to layout the text in
• flags: A or combination of FontBase.TLF_xxx constants instructing how to layout the text
• letterSpacing: The space to add between each letter of the text
• lineSpacing: The space to add between each line of the text
• tabSpace: The size of a tab in space characters increment, default to 4 if unspecified
• breakChar: A string the will be inserted to indicated broken words

 TextField:setLayout(layout)

Example:

-- a string variable
local mystring = "Some very long text. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed non risus. Suspendisse lectus tortor, dignissim sit amet, adipiscing nec, ultricies sed, dolor."

-- the text field with default system font
local textfield = TextField.new(nil, mystring)

-- we set the string that will be used as sample for determining text line height
textfield:setSample(mystring)

-- then we set the layout: width, height, line spacing and justify center
textfield:setLayout( {w=200, h=100, lineSpacing=7, flags=FontBase.TLF_CENTER} )

-- finally, we set the text position and add it to stage
textfield:setPosition(50, 50)
stage:addChild(textfield)

Parameters

layout: (table) Layout parameters