Wish B4XCanvas DrawText alignment

[klaus]

Hi Erel,
The B4XCanvas DrawText method alignment property is either "LEFT", "CENTER" or "RIGHT".
These properties look like Strings.
But, this works:
xcvsGraph.DrawText(txt, Graph.Left - 0.6 * Texts.ScaleTextHeight, y + 0.38 * Texts.ScaleTextHeight, Texts.ScaleFont, ID.Color, "LEFT")
but this doesn't, tested with B4J:
Private Alignment = "LEFT" As String
xcvsGraph.DrawText(txt, Graph.Left - 0.6 * Texts.ScaleTextHeight, y + 0.38 * Texts.ScaleTextHeight, Texts.ScaleFont, ID.Color, Alignment)
Error:
java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to javafx.scene.text.TextAlignment

Wish, as the properties are Strings couldn't these be converted into the corresponding object in the library.
Or am I missing something.

Thank you in advance.

 

[Erel]

This works fine here:

Sub Process_Globals
    Private fx As JFX
    Private MainForm As Form
    Private xui As XUI
    Private Alignment = "RIGHT" As String
End Sub

Sub AppStart (Form1 As Form, Args() As String)
    MainForm = Form1
    MainForm.Show
    Dim c As B4XCanvas
    c.Initialize(MainForm.RootPane)
    c.DrawText("sdfsdf", 100, 100, xui.CreateDefaultFont(20), xui.Color_Red, Alignment)
End Sub

 

[klaus]

Very strange, yesterday I got the error message I mentioned.
And, luckily, today it works OK ???!!!
Thank you for testing it and sorry for having disturbed you.

 

[Erel]

The error will happen if you change Alignment type to Object. It must be a string.