Graphics

Hi all,

I am trying to horizontally center a group on x which contains a quad with clip texture, and 2 rows of text left justified to the quad.I want the centering to be based on the longest row of type.  I think this should be possible in visual logic...but I am new to it. I tried to do a bounding box width and divide by 2 to output x position, but this did not work on the group nor a single text line. I must have done something wrong. I didn't even get to try to figure out how determine which line is longest. Any ideas?

Thanks so much for your help,

Layne

Could you please give us more details?...

In Visual Logic get the maximum value form both Bounding box width.
By default centered object in group have X-Position = 0
Divide the longest text in 2, divide it with -1 to get the negative copy and apply it as a Position X for Text 1 and Text 2.

I am not sure what details you are asking for Rosca. I am going to try what you said, and then use the new x position for the quad with a negative x offset to line it up.  Thank you for your help.

The visual logic provided worked really well, but it didn't exactly center. It is a little bit to the left, but everything moves when I change the amount of letters in each row. I am going to try to offset the x position of the type and see if that helps. Thanks again!

OK. So I added the offset to get everything to center correctly and all is good. One issue is that I would like to use auto squeeze, but when I turn it on, it does not work properly. I think I have to make a delimiter to say if you reach this width...stop moving the x  position. I saw something like this on the forum, but couldn't exactly figure it out. Any suggestions?

Fill the text with multiple XXXX until your reach preferred width, than click on "Set The Current" and enable Auto Squeeze.

https://youtu.be/LsyIbTf4xAw?t=464

Thanks again Rosca. I know how to use auto squeeze, but when I applied it to my text, the visual logic stopped working. Thanks to Drew Shealy who suggested I use the boundingbox.widthscaled visual logic blocks instead of the normal bounding box.width. This takes into account the auto squeeze.