How to Center text in Lisp :edit_box

[dtsfan1976]

I would like to find out if I can center text within a dialog edit box. I am populating this edit box from the result of a :popup_list. This information will not be edited and for display only.

Here is my code currently.

(write-line ":edit_box {" f)
(write-line "edit_width = 10;" f)
(write-line "edit_limit = 9;" f)
(write-line "key = \"mill_disp\";" f)
(write-line "}" f)

If this is at all possible please help me out.

[MSasu]

If is just for display you may try to add spaces in front of the said string; the number of spaces will be correlated with the size of currently shown string. Or use a text tile instead.

By the way, please edit your post and add the required code tags.

[dtsfan1976]

Can you give an example of how you would use a text tile for this?

[MSasu]

This is what I was thinking about:

(set_tile "mill_disp" (strcat "        " "abc"))
(set_tile "mill_disp" (strcat "  "       "dtsfan1976"))

Based on your above example that's still pending code tags.

[BIGAL]

A quick look at a old help book talks about right justified when edit_width is zero and goes on to talk about left & right justification only no centre option.