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hey so i've seen a lot of carts which have a function for printing a string of text in the centre of the area on the x axis which they have depicted, and it often ends up looking something like this:

 
-- actual function
function cprint(txt,centre,y,c)
 print(txt,centre-#txt*2,y,c)
end

-- example
function _init()
 cls()
end

function _draw()
 cprint("Centre:64",64,0,7)
 for x=0,127,8 do
  for y=16,127,8 do
   line(x,0,x,127,8)
   line(0,y,127,0,8)
  end
 end
 cprint("Hello World!",64,62,7)
end

but often one thing that they don't account for is the extra space in which the characters with an id over 127 cover. for example,

 
-- chr(151)
cprint("❎❎❎❎❎❎❎",64,62,7)
cprint("❎❎❎❎❎❎",64,68,7)
cprint("❎❎❎❎",64,74,7)

in order to fix this, i first built a function which returns how many characters in the string are doubled in length,

 
function has_double(str)
 local letters=0
 for i=1,#str do
  local char_code=ord(sub(str,i,i))
  if char_code>=128 and char_code<=255 then
   letters+=1
  end
 end
 return letters
end

then i implemented it into the "cprint" function as so

 
function cprint(txt,centre,y,c)
 for i=1,#txt do
  local added_letters=has_double(txt)
  print(text,centre-(#txt+added_letters)*2,y,c)
 end
end

feel free to copy

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You can also print offscreen, because print returns the rightmost position of the text. If you do width = print(text, 0, -100) then you can just offset by half the width.



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