Text widget glitching on the first frame

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@MrBRight30

It looks like the text takes an additional tick to adjust itself in the screen once it appears.[…] How do I fix this?

Start working from the top, one by one:

• do not Size To Content
• do not Wrap Text At (set to 0)
• set Min Desired Width to be larger than the text:

I’ll admit I’m not sure what shenanigans happen under the hood with both size box and scale box meddling with desired size.

• does it manifest without the outline / shadow, too?
• try adding the Force Layout Prepass node on Construct, targetting Self.

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• are any of the settings of the component modified from the defaults, namely:

• is the component in Screen Space? Looks like it, asking to be sure
• is there anything we need to know about the component’s owner? The way it’s spawned - scaled, perhaps? Probably irrelevant if the component is in the Screen Space.