Why does text not appear properly and how do I fix it?

I've been working around this recently, but I really want to know what I've done wrong (or if this is a bug - it probably isn't).

Note: Just to clarify, there is no event sheet attached to this layout.

So in the layout editor, this is what the layout looks like:

But when I run the layout, this is what the layout looks like.

It only happens with text, and it's very annoying - I've had to do this:

To get this:

Thanks in advance!

Eliclax

Did you check Configuration Settings in your project properties? What's probably suspect in full screen scaling settings (try turnin fullscreen off completely, though), high-dps display, and sampling, besides maybe downscaling. As well as possibly Pixel rounding.

Did you check Configuration Settings in your project properties? What's probably suspect in full screen scaling settings (try turnin fullscreen off completely, though), high-dps display, and sampling, besides maybe downscaling. As well as possibly Pixel rounding.

I just tried changing all of those, one at a time, but unfortunately, nothing seemed to work.

Welcome to text rendering where the font used and the results obtained vary from a browser to another.

Though in your example what is not really obvious is if the character "<" and the word "Settings" are in the same text object ?

My guess is they are not, and you are even possibly using a TextBox object in the mix which makes alignment even more difficult.

Apart from correcting in the layout for each platform you are aiming to release on there is no solution I know of for such issues. Apart maybe using SpriteFont, but SpriteFont then bring their own set of difficulties and issues.

Welcome to text rendering where the font used and the results obtained vary from a browser to another.

Though in your example what is not really obvious is if the character "<" and the word "Settings" are in the same text object ?

My guess is they are not, and you are even possibly using a TextBox object in the mix which makes alignment even more difficult.

Apart from correcting in the layout for each platform you are aiming to release on there is no solution I know of for such issues. Apart maybe using SpriteFont, but SpriteFont then bring their own set of difficulties and issues.

Great......

And btw, The "<" isn't a character, it's actually a sprite. Which probably explains why it stays in the same place.