Why does dxDrawText use end position and not width and hight?

[Gaimo]

I solved the problem by doing this:
 

function dxNewDrawText(...)
    arg = {...}
    arg[4] = arg[2] + arg[4]
    arg[5] = arg[3] + arg[5]
    dxDrawText(unpack(arg))
end

But I would like to understand the reason to use end position.

[FernandoMTA]

float leftX, float topY [, float rightX = leftX, float bottomY = topY

It uses those arguments for positioning so that you can determine the 4 points of a rectangle in which the text will be. Default alignment is horizontal "left" and vertical "top". You can easily change this to "center", "center" to place your text in the middle of the rectangle you defined with the 4 left, top, right, bottom points.

Idk why they didn't just do x,y, width,height but it works like this.

Edited June 13, 2022 by FernandoMTA