You'll need a function that calculates the width of the text. For something
Lingo-based, try:
on getTextWidth psMemberName
liLeftH = member(psMemberName).charPosToLoc(1).locH
liRightH =
member(psMemberName).charPosToLoc(member(psMemberName).text.length + 1).locH
return liRightH - liLeftH
end
With that value, set the locH of the other sprite to the left of the text
sprite, plus the calculated text with, plus 10.
sprite(liOtherSprite).locH = sprite(liTextSprite).left +
getTextWidth("TextMember") + 10
Of course, this works well only if you have one line of text in the text
sprite, and that text isn't wrapping.
Christopher Watson
Sr. Software Engineer
Lightspan, Inc.
-----Original Message-----
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Subject: <lingo-l> aligning sprites on the fly
Ok, so I've got this movie that does all this sprite alignment stuff;
multiple member types.
I'm running into a problem with text members. ...I don't even know how to
phrase the question...
I want to be able to get the width of the text of a text sprite,
basically. The sprite's width will always be 292 whether populated with
text or not -- I want to put another sprite to the right of it (maybe
padding 10 pixels) -- so of course I'm always getting something off as the
sprite is 292, even though it's blank...or 5 chars...etc.
So what's the best way of doing this? Char count against the fontsize?
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