Centering text on a monitor

Hello,

I'm trying to make a statistics screen on a 3x2 monitor but my text doesn't want to behave.

local mon = peripheral.wrap("right")
local x,y = mon.getSize()
mon.clear()
mon.setTextColor(colors.red)
mon.setTextScale(1)
text = "Stats"
mon.setCursorPos(math.floor(x - text:len())/2, 3)
mon.write(text)

With this code, everything is perfectly centered but if I want to make the words bigger (textScale 2) it's obviously not centered anymore. Multiplying the length by 2 did not work.

Thanks in advance

The problem is you store the current monitor size in the variables x and y, then you change the size. The variables won't change to reflect this new size, unless you again store the values returned by mon.getSize() in them. Basically you should change the size, then store the size, not the other way around.

Ooh, by changing the TextScale, I also change the Size() ?

Ok I change it around but it seems not fixed:

local mon = peripheral.wrap("right")
mon.setTextScale(2)
x,y = mon.getSize()
print(x..","..y)
mon.clear()
mon.setBackgroundColor(colors.black)
mon.setTextColor(colors.red)
text = "Stats"
mon.setCursorPos(math.floor((x - text:len())/2), 2)
mon.write(text)
mon.setCursorPos(1,6)
mon.setTextColor(colors.white)
mon.setTextScale(1)
x,y = mon.getSize()
mon.write("Logs collected: " .. "test")
mon.setCursorPos(1,7)
mon.write("Amount of trees chopped: " .. "test")
mon.setCursorPos(1,8)
mon.write("% logs per tree: " .. "test")

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What you seem to not understand, is that setTextScale affects the entire monitor, not just the text you are currently writing. Basically if you change it to 2, write something, then change it back to 1, what you wrote will revert to a scale of 1. Only way around this would be to use multple monitors.

That's unfortunate. Anyway, thanks for the help :)/>