drawText()

Purpose

Draw text on the screen

Description

Draw text on the screen at the specified location and size and in the specified colour

Syntax

drawText( x, y, size, colour, values )

Arguments

x horizontal position to start drawing text in pixels

y vertical position to start drawing text in pixels

size height of text in pixels

colour colour name or RGB values { red, green, blue, opacity } between 0 and 1

values A comma separated list of values to print

Example

for size = 1 to 200 step 1 loop
    clear()
    centreText( "Hello World", size )
    update()
repeat

function centreText( message, size )
    textSize( size )
    tw = textWidth( message )
    drawText( ( gWidth() - tw ) / 2, ( gHeight() - size ) / 2, size, white, message )
return void

Associated Commands