Text alignment and origin issues.

[paulcanning]

So, 1.5.0 fixed a lot of issues I had with origins and translating it to CSS3.

Whilst this is ace, a new issue has come to light and I'm hoping it can either be looked into or there is a work around?

Basically, I need the text alignment to act independently of the origin.

So, if I have some text, one a few lines, and it is set to align left, with origin "center center", and I add more text, making the "bounding box" wider, it expands out form the center. I'd like it to expand to the right, so the left edge stays still.

I understand this is working as intended, as it is set to the center origin. But I would like it to be the way I described. Or at least given the option, or a way around this.

It causes issues with my application as it means if text is changed at a later date, it could look incorrect in respect to the text alignment, its position and surrounding elements.

See this basic fiddle, http://jsfiddle.net/hwtoc65g/, double click the text (its i-text) and start typing.

You'll see, despite the text alignment being set to "left", the box expands outwards form the center.

Is there a way to achieve what I want? :)

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[asturur]

hi @paulcanning,

i think this can be easily solved at application level.
Try to bind to the text:changed event (i think we have one) a workaround with the functions adjustposition and costraintposition, like we use for scaling.
If you notice, whatever is originX or originY the position stay same from the corner opposite the one you are pulling when you scale.
(try on kitchensink).

So i think that mixing those 2 functions you can make the iText staty in the current position.

I'm working on those function as of now for various reason, it may be i can make a demo.

Other story:
Could you please do a basic fiddle of the shadow on text problem you reported on other issue?
Otherwise i will close the issue for bug not showing up. ( i hope you understand ).

[paulcanning]

If you could make a demo showing the workaround working, that would be great!

It is quite important, but I have some leeway on getting it sorted.

[asturur]

http://jsfiddle.net/hwtoc65g/7/

I know it is late, the fiddle shows what i meant.
I think that adding another feature about positioning is not the case.
You can still reposition the object programmatically very easy. I do not fill like adding another feature in this area.

@paulcanning, did you find another way around this when it was, 1 year ago?