Bevy: TextComponents - Position changes with length of text

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On macOS, just altering this string slice causes the vertical position of the text to change!

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The first shot is the normal "Text Example". The second alters it to be "Text Example -- notice anything?". The third is "Text Example -- notice anything? Even more text 1234567890"

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Suggested labels: bug | ui

[GabLotus]

I agree with you this is definitely a bug thanks for letting us know :) If anyone is reading this can you confirm the bug repros on other platforms too 😊

[TheNeikos]

I'm on Archlinux , here's the same texts:

"Text Example"

"Text Example -- notice anything?"

"Text Example -- notice anything? Even more text 1234567890"

Same issue here

[TheNeikos]

This happens due to how the flexbox engine interacts with fixed size elements:

• First a fixed size is computed here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/8106f770de2ae3c841651499e0637123d7ae6688/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/text.rs#L40-L48
• This size is then used during layout here: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/8106f770de2ae3c841651499e0637123d7ae6688/crates/bevy_ui/src/flex/mod.rs#L44-L68
• For example if we calculate a text with (w: 100px, h: 20px). The layout engine then says we only have 80px of actual width or we overflow. This is then handled in the measure closure. Right now, we simply keep the aspect ratio which then reduces the height. In this case 20 * 80/100 = 16. So, our Node now has a size of (w: 80, h: 20px). __This is different to the calculated size!__
• When rendered, we simply divide the node.size by 2 to get the center and offset that with is transform. But then go on to draw with the original size: https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/8106f770de2ae3c841651499e0637123d7ae6688/crates/bevy_ui/src/widget/text.rs#L64-L81

This then results in the behavior we see now: A smaller height divided by two makes for an 'upwards' growing text, when in actuality it should be shrinking to fit the available width.

I am not sure what the ideal solution is here. Either the text overflows, or it gets smaller and smaller. Another option is to have it break into a new line (if there is space?)

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In my use-case I would like to wrap. From my naive standpoint of never having had to implement a text layout system, it seems like wrap vs. shrink vs. overflow should all be supported via some configurable option. I don't know how hard that is to do.

[mockersf]

I have this issue, my "fix" to have the expected placement is to set the Style component of the TextComponents, with the height equal to the font size:

TextComponents {
    style: Style {
        size: Size {
            height: Val::Px(40.),
            ..Default::default()
        },
        ..Default::default()
    },
    text: Text {
        value: "Text example",
        font,
        style: TextStyle {
            color: Color::WHITE,
            font_size: 40.,
        },
    },
    ..Default::default()
}