Create a Button

[kenuvis]

Its so simple, but i am to silly.

i want simply create a button in lua using that:

        local button = CreateFrame("Button", "only_for_testing", mainframe)
        button:SetPoint("CENTER", mainframe, "CENTER", 0, 0)
        button:SetWidth(200)
        button:SetHeight(50)
        
        button:SetText("My Test")
        button:SetNormalFontObject("GameFontNormalSmall")
        
        button:SetNormalTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Up")
        button:SetHighlightTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Highlight")
        button:SetPushedTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Down")

I see the button but the text is set to the bottomleft of the button and it seems so, i can do, whatever i want, i dont get it to the center of the button.

[kenuvis]

here is my quick'n'dirty solution, but......its not realy fine.

	local fo = button:CreateFontString()
	fo:SetFont("Fonts/FRIZQT__.TTF",12)
	fo:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", button, "TOPLEFT", 200/6,-50/4)
	fo:SetText("test")
	button:SetFontString(fo)

Commands like fo:SetJustifyH will have no effekt and so, I must move it this stupid way. Hopefully, you have a better solution.

PS: I see, the button has not the size (200x50) it should have, so the text is in the middle, but the button is not right, wtf !

[Xrystal]

I don't recall ever having font alignment problems on my buttons but what I always did was use a pre-defined font type on it which may have been set up correctly.

After creating the button and setting the buttons features I would then do the following:

button:SetDisabledFontObject(GameFontDisable)
button:SetHighlightFontObject(GameFontHighlight)
button:SetNormalFontObject(GameFontNormal)

[kenuvis]

So, i have it all right, I must scale the texture of the Button.

here is the working script for all other having this problem:

	local button = CreateFrame("Button", nil, mainframe)
	button:SetPoint("CENTER", mainframe, "CENTER", 0, 0)
	button:SetWidth(200)
	button:SetHeight(50)
	
	button:SetText("test")
	button:SetNormalFontObject("GameFontNormal")
	
	local ntex = button:CreateTexture()
	ntex:SetTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Up")
	ntex:SetTexCoord(0, 0.625, 0, 0.6875)
	ntex:SetAllPoints()	
	button:SetNormalTexture(ntex)
	
	local htex = button:CreateTexture()
	htex:SetTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Highlight")
	htex:SetTexCoord(0, 0.625, 0, 0.6875)
	htex:SetAllPoints()
	button:SetHighlightTexture(htex)
	
	local ptex = button:CreateTexture()
	ptex:SetTexture("Interface/Buttons/UI-Panel-Button-Down")
	ptex:SetTexCoord(0, 0.625, 0, 0.6875)
	ptex:SetAllPoints()
	button:SetPushedTexture(ptex)

[Xrystal]

Cool, glad you got it all sorted.