[resolved]UI problems

function printScreen()
clear()
print("=======================================")
print("=		 Status: "..state.."	  =")
print("---------------------------------------")
print("= Wood collected: "..wood.."				   =")
print("=  Saplings left:					 =")
print("= Bone Meal left:					 =")
print("=======================================")
end

The status things works correctly since there is only 1 string length.

The problem that I am having is that if the string wood is more than 1 character, my whole UI is screwed up. Im planning to do something similair with saplings and bonemeal (not have gotten to write that part, thats why there are no variables) only there it goes from 3 characters to 1 and that screws it up to.

thanks in advance,

Engineer

I love to see the codes you guys eventually will post and I thank you for that :)/>

NOTE: sorry if this is common, I didnt saw another thread about this

You'll have to compute the number of spaces between the end of the line which ends with an equals sign.

Assuming that the equals sign will be located at the position (37, 4), you could subtract the length of the amount of wood as a string plus 17 from 37 to calculate how many spaces you will need to make the UI even.

17 is the number of characters between the start of the line and where you're printing the amount of wood collected.

function printScreen()
    clear()
    print("=======================================")
    print("=                 Status: "..state.."      =")
    print("---------------------------------------")
    print("= Wood collected: "..wood.. string.rep(' ', 37 - (tostring(wood):len() + 17))'=')
    print("=  Saplings left:                                         =")
    print("= Bone Meal left:                                         =")
    print("=======================================")
end

You could also do this if the above makes no sense,
just get the right co-ords

function printScreen()
    clear()
    print("=======================================")
    print("=                 Status: "..state.."           =")
    print("---------------------------------------")
    print("= Wood collected:                     =")
    print("= Saplings left:                      =")
    print("= Bone Meal left:                     =")
    print("=======================================")

term.setCursorPos(19, 4)
write(wood)
end