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I want to position a graphic relative to
another object and have tried to use the
x loc, y loc to do this. I've tried all the
permutations I can think of without success.

Any suggestions appreciated.

You get the location of an object in a comma seperated string. No way to set the xloc or y loc seperately I am aware of.

local tX,tY

put item 1 of control "myControl" into tX
put item 2 of control "myControl" into tY

set the loc of control "myOtherControl" to tX+10,tY+10

Hope that snippet gets you started,

Malte

Malte

Thanks for that.

Now I'm going to take advantage of
your expertise in all things graphical.

I want to move an image from, say 50, 50 to
100,100 but I want it to go only vertically and
horizontally rather than taking the direct route.
Well, it doesn't have to worry about mpg!

So it has to go to 50,100 then to 100,100.

Is there a neat way to do this?

Hi bjb007, one relatively straightforward way would be:
Hope that's the sort of thing you're after...



PS I'm glad to see you're not grumpy anymore, bjb007!!

gyroscope

The locations will come from the script
and vary for a number of items so I really
need a programmable way to get the result
I want.

I haven't tried to programme it yet as I've spent
half the night trying to sort the array to get the
right graphic going to the right location - see my
post.

Expect after some zzzzz I'll feel able to figure it
out but I get confused by the negative movements.

Way back -- 1974 -- I had the interesting task of
calculating the centre of gravity of some walk-ways
on a North Sea oil production platform. No computers
then, just mechancial calculators.

So the thing which made it much easier was to
set the 0,0 not at the centre of the platform but
some way off out in the North Sea. That way all
distances were positive.

Edit:
So now I'm wondering if it would be possible
to put an object somewhere off-stack and use
relative positions so that they're all positive numbers.

set up globals, put your positions in these, perhaps? i.e.

I had the interesting task of
calculating the centre of gravity of some walk-ways
on a North Sea oil production platform.

Sheesh, I wouldn't know where to start there...!

Malte, gyroscope and all Revvers.

I've uploaded my test stack to RevOnline

User bjb007.

Stack: Finder v0.1

Hy to Everybody, Lestroso Here,

I want just to share a trick that i have done with revolution, now Livecode...about to get the xloc and the yloc , in order to set a location of an object, so how to get the real position of an object in very few line of codes.

Here this example that really works....


Cheers!!eheheh

Lestroso

http://www.fasasoftware.com

lestroso...

What would be wrong with just... ? be well

Dixie

Or... to get the same result as Lestroso:

on mouseUp
put replaceText(the loc of the target,comma,cr) into fld "Risultato"
end mouseUp

Best,

Mark

Mark,

even better... nice one

be well

Dixie