Formatting / aligning text and objects on screen.

[TheREALtigR 0]

Forgive my lack of competence with lua and programming in general.

I am trying to display information about my power systems ** in the centre of a 5x1 screen and I am struggling to achieve this without simply setting the text at a position on the screen, and I would much rather have the centre of the text string centered on 'width/2' and 'height/2' as the power level updates every 0.1 second and the string is different lengths in each update.

**

while true do
	
	energy = bank.getEnergyStored(4)
	capacity = bank.getMaxEnergyStored(4)
	
	percentcalc = (energy / capacity) * 100

	digits = 1
	shift = 10 ^ digits
	percent = math.floor(percentcalc*shift + 0.5) / shift

	term.clear()

	print("Power = "..energy.."/"..capacity.." (RF) - "..percent.."%"

	os.sleep(0.1)

end

Thanks for any help

[Totoro 28]

You can use GPU component to get current screen resolution and use gpu.set() to center text on the screen.

For example:

local com = require('component')
local gpu = com.gpu

local width, height = gpu.getResolution()
local text = "Some info to be centered"

gpu.set(width / 2 - #text / 2, height / 2, text)