Centering Player Name (100% accurate)

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Centering Player Name (100% accurate)
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Basically this tut will show you how to use the call GetTextExtentPoint32 to find the width of the name and then how to encorporate it into the sub BltPlayerName.

ALL CLIENTSIDE:
In modDeclares, add this:

Code:

Public Declare Function GetTextExtentPoint32 Lib "gdi32" Alias "GetTextExtentPoint32A" (ByVal hDC As Long, ByVal lpszString As String, ByVal cbString As Integer, ByRef lpSize As Size) As Integer

*note ~ I set this to integer because I dont need to find the length of anything more than 255 chars

In modTypes, add this:

Code:

Type Size
cx As Long
cy As Long
End Type

This creates the type Size which GetExtentPoint32 needs to dump the text info

Now go to BltPlayerName and add these at top:

Code:

Dim textSize As Size
Dim textWidth As Integer

Under the color assigns, add this:

Code:

'measure width of name
    SelectObject TexthDC, GameFont
    GetTextExtentPoint32 TexthDC, GetPlayerName(Index), Len(GetPlayerName(Index)), textSize
    textWidth = textSize.cx

This gets the size info for your name and assigns the width to textWidth

Now replace:

Code:

TextX = GetPlayerX(Index) * PIC_X + Player(Index).XOffset + Int(PIC_X / 2) - ((Len(GetPlayerName(Index)) / 2) * 8)

With:

Code:

TextX = (GetPlayerX(Index) * PIC_X) + (Player(Index).XOffset) + (Int(PIC_X / 2)) - (Int(textWidth / 2))

This changes the old x coordinate assign to center the text with the new info.

And you're done! You can apply this to NPC names, the map name, and whatever else you want to center.