TText, SetTextAlign

[lawlieto]

Dear ROOTers,

I’m having an issue with aligning my text on a canvas. The text I created overlaps with the picture itself, and I’d like to move the text upwards so that both the picture and the text could be seen properly. Currently I’m using t->SetTextAlign(31), and I’ve tried a few other numbers, but those were even worse.

Any ideas how to move the text upwards?
I attached the picture
Thanks!

[bellenot]

Try with TText::PaintText or TText::PaintTextNDC

[ksmith]

A small example would be allow us to be more helpful to you. Which text class are you using: TText, TLatex, TMathText, TPaveText, …?

You might just want TText::SetX or TText::SetY?

[lawlieto]

I’m using TText, and this is part of my code:
cdate is a const char.
TText* t = new TText(.5,.5,cdate);
t->SetTextAlign(31);
t->SetTextColor(kBlue);
t->Draw();

I’ll try to use SetX and SetY

[ksmith]

Why not just change the position in the constructor?

TText* t = new TText(.5,.1,cdate);
t->SetTextAlign(31);
t->SetTextColor(kBlue);
t->Draw();

Just FYI:

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Remark on the way to post code snippets: When you post pieces of code on the forum enclose it with ``` . That makes your post much more readable (I systematically edit your posts that way) . So do: ``` // this is a C++ piece of code. ``` And it will display as: // this is a C++ piece of code.

[lawlieto]

Because I didn’t know that input stood for the position
Thanks a lot! and thank you for the advice about formatting my posts

[ksmith]

You’re welcome. Here is the brief documentation on the constructor for future reference:
https://root.cern.ch/doc/master/classTText.html#a0cb6bb845e458e61dc2415f5b432bc93