GML Text moving left and right when counter counts [SOLVED]

[OnLashoc]

How do I stop the text from shifting left and right as my counter hits certain numbers or double digits?

There's this funky left and right movement of my text as I press the next turn button and the date and time increases.

This is in the Draw Event:

draw_text (x + 250, y + 45 , "Date: " + string(year) + "." + string(day));
draw_text (x + 425, y + 45 , "Turn: " + string(turn));

I tried googling but I cant seem to find the answer.

Onnie

 

[Rob]

This is down to draw_set_halign. The default setting is fa_centre so the longer/shorter the string the more it will move left or right.

use draw_set_halign(fa_left) or draw_set_halign(fa_right) before your draw code.

 

[OnLashoc]

Thank you, and how to I change it back for the rest of the text in my game? I remember watching a tutorial on this about a year ago but I forgot.


*EDIT*

Nevermind, just had to add draw_set_halign(fa_center); AT THE END of the code needing aligned left or right to change everything else back to center aligned. Thanks again Rob, you're always willing to help, much appreciated. I searched and searched to see where I found that before but couldn't find it.

My code looks like this now and everything is as it should be:

draw_set_halign(fa_left);
draw_text (x + 250, y + 45 , "Date: " + string(year) + "." + string(day));
draw_text (x + 425, y + 45 , "Turn: " + string(turn));
draw_set_halign(fa_center);