Message(3I)

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💬 Message(3I) — interactor containing text 💬

okay bestie, welcome to the Message(3I) page from the InterViews Reference Manual ✨ this is the little guy that puts a line of text inside an interactor. she's simple, she's iconic, she's giving text-in-a-box energy 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

Message — interactor containing text

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <InterViews/message.h>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

A message is an interactor that contains a line of text, periodt. 📝

The alignment of the text with respect to the interactor's canvas can be specified in the constructor — yes, you get to choose where the text sits, no cap. 🎀

👑 PUBLIC OPERATIONS 👑

  • Message(const char*, Alignment = Center, int pad = 0, int hstretch = 0, int vstretch = 0) — Construct a new message interactor with the given text string and alignment. The text will be surrounded on all sides by whitespace of width pad, and the horizontal and vertical stretchability of the message will be set to the indicated values. 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Interactor(3I)

that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 go forth and align your text. this was InterViews, dated 28 March 1988, and yes the manual page is literally called Message(3I) — slay 💅✨

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