Graphics

First off, squeeky-new to Xpression so apologies for the noob question!

I have a Text object in the center of my scene. How can I set it so that when I add a new line of text to the object, the text object still stays centered in the scene? Right now, when I add a new line of text to the object, the first line stays right where it is, and the second line is created just below the first line.

Thanks!

Hey TC. Do you have your text object tab stop set to center justification?

That I do, but I'm looking for a Y-Axis/vertical centering solution ;-)

Imagine you had a scene which would be text-heavy, and you'd want that dynamically centered in the middle of the screen. 

Thanks.

You need to do a little scripting, or some Visual Logic. Basic idea is:

 - set your text centered on the x and center justified (as you did)

 - set Y Pivot to be at max

 - position text object at 960, 540, for a 1080 comp.

 - use Visual Logic to move the text box up half of the height of the bounding box

The "Value" block number is 540, for half the height of a 1080 tall composition. The values shown in my image are with 3 lines of text, and they auto-center on the Y axis, as soon as you type a line break.

Check out the VL blocks in the image.