fontstring positioning. need help

[mordrac]

thats what i use in my current addon:

-- frametest
f = CreateFrame("MessageFrame", "frametest", UIParent)
f:SetHeight(32)
f:SetWidth(256)
f:SetPoint("LEFT", UIParent)
f:Show()
local font = frametest:CreateFontString(nil,"OVERLAY")
font:SetFontObject("GameFontNormal")
font:SetHeight(32)
font:SetWidth(256)
font:SetPoint("LEFT", frametest, "BOTTOM")
font:SetText("text " .. variable1 .. " text2 " .. varianle2 .. " more text")

the problem is -> imagine a box. and the box is at the left side of the screen in the middle.
now inside the box shall be text. i tell the text to be at the bottom left of the box, but its mid/mid.
no matter what i tell it where to be its always wrong...

[Brusalk]

You set the height and width of your font-string to the same as the parent-frame.
I'm not 100% sure on this but I'd try making the width and height smaller, and use the built-in font-size option to change the font size. I think it's showing up in the bottom middle because effectively you have a box, in another box, and on that second-inside box, you have text which is centered.

again I'm not 100% sure, and I don't have that much experience with font-strings