Text Alignment

Text can be aligned to the left, right or center of its bounding box.

If the text element has no bounding box, the alignment parameter will be ignored.

import { Toodle } from "@bloopjs/toodle";

const canvas = document.querySelector("canvas")!;
const toodle = await Toodle.attach(canvas, {
  limits: { textureArrayLayers: 5 },
});
await toodle.assets.loadFont(
  "ComicNeue",
  new URL("https://toodle.gg/fonts/ComicNeue-Regular-msdf.json"),
);

const black = { r: 0, g: 0, b: 0, a: 1 };

const nodes = [
  toodle.Node({
    position: { x: -200, y: 50 },
    kids: [
      toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "Left aligned\nbased on line widths", {
        color: black,
        fontSize: 14,
        align: "left",
      }),
    ],
  }),
  toodle.Node({
    position: { x: 0, y: 50 },
    kids: [
      toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "Center aligned\nbased on line widths", {
        color: black,
        fontSize: 14,
        align: "center",
      }),
    ],
  }),
  toodle.Node({
    position: { x: 200, y: 50 },
    kids: [
      toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "Right aligned\nbased on line widths", {
        color: black,
        fontSize: 14,
        align: "right",
      }),
    ],
  }),
];

toodle.startFrame();

for (const node of nodes) {
  toodle.draw(node);
}

toodle.draw(
  toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "No effect without bounding box (l)", {
    color: black,
    position: { x: 0, y: -14 },
    fontSize: 14,
    align: "left",
  }),
);

toodle.draw(
  toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "No effect without bounding box (c)", {
    color: black,
    position: { x: 0, y: -28 },
    fontSize: 14,
    align: "center",
  }),
);

toodle.draw(
  toodle.Text("ComicNeue", "No effect without bounding box (r)", {
    color: black,
    position: { x: 0, y: -42 },
    fontSize: 14,
    align: "right",
  }),
);

toodle.endFrame();