Alignment not working
Added by Adam Skluzada about 7 years ago
Hello,
I'm trying to align text but I can't seem to make it work. When I try to use this:
setContentAlignment(AlignmentFlag::Center);
So the exactly same thing the Hangman example is using, I get this error:
error: ‘setContentAlignment’ was not declared in this scope
setContentAlignment(AlignmentFlag::Center);
When I specify, that I want to use setContentAlignmentfrom WContainerWidget library like this:
WContainerWidget::setContentAlignment(AlignmentFlag::Center);
I get this error:
error: cannot call member function ‘void Wt::WContainerWidget::setContentAlignment(Wt::WFlags<Wt::AlignmentFlag>)’ without object
WContainerWidget::setContentAlignment(AlignmentFlag::Center);
I've also tried to align text like this:
header = root()->addWidget(std::make_unique<WText>("Boolean model of information retrieval"));
header->setTextAlignment(AlignmentFlag::Center);
But that doesn't have any effect.
The only thing that seems to do something is
header->setMargin(50, Side::Left);
But that's not very useful for me as I would like to have everything in the center.
Thank you.
Replies (1)
RE: Alignment not working - Added by lm at about 7 years ago
It looks like you're calling that from a global or static context. It looks like you're calling setContentAlignment from your Wt::WApplication (which is not a Wt::WContainerWidget). The Wt::WContainerWidget associated with your Wt::WApplication is found at this->root(). Perhaps consider this->root()->setContentAlignment(...)?
I'm not very sure about Wt alignment. I use CSS to do all my alignment-related set up.