Graphics

Hello all,

I have a group that contains the following

logo - day name - month name - day number

The date info is automatically updated using a clock.

How do I center the group based on the length of character the date has for example

Monday, July 20

is shorter than

Wednesday, September 30

I need the centering to happen automatically with the change of the dates.

Thanks 

Juan,

Have you used Visual Logic? Are you familiar with that feature of XPression?

Shane

I have tried using Visual Logic and can not get it to center once the text(Date) changes everything moves all over the place. for now, I have left it left-aligned but I would like it to be center automatically everyday

The logo is on a quad, Monday the common the month and the day number are all separate elements I am using Visual Logic to have the comma month and day number follow the day name, what I thought was to put it all in a group then find the middle of the group and set the position based on that number but if I change the day name to Wednesday, for example, all the elements move but not aligned nor centered 

I will try to make an example in VL and post it here.

But, thinking out loud:  Put your text object as a child of the blue bar. Make that text center-justified. In VL, get the width of the text bounding box, then divide by two to get half the width of the text box. Set the X Pos of the text box to be that half-point number, and then offset that number in X by half of the width of your logo box.

Sorry if this is obvious and what you have tried. I'm not in XPression now, but will give it a try soon.

Shane

Quad objects:

Logo

Bar

Text objects:

Day: manually entered

Date: Clock Timer widget format MM/DD

DayDateDisplay: fed in Visual Logic

Make Logo child of Group1

Make DayDateDisplay child of Logo

Unlock position of Group1 in Pivot (red circle)

I manually set position of logo to center composite after building visual logic.

Note: If you could find a clock timer format that would give you the name of the day as well, use Left String to trim off Month/Date

You need to use your project's font names (or ID numbers) as the font tags in {braces}

Thank you so very much for your help.

I will try and implement your version as it seems to be so much simpler than mine.

After several hours this is my solution to the issue I was having for centering everything and have everything with the exception of the logo to populate automatically.

Again thank you for your help.

You're welcome! You were way ahead of me on the Visual Logic blocks for Clock & Format Date Time! Haven't worked with them before. Plug those into the Concatenate and you'll be done.