Scripting alignment tools

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Fri Mar 16 01:19:03 EDT 2012


I use that widget all the time.  Invaluable...

On 15 March 2012 11:40, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Scott Rossi made a widget called tmAlign. Very handy. Yes you can do this
> with a script, like set the topleft of object1 to the topleft of object2 or
> set the top of object1 to the top of object2. Center alignments get
> trickier as you have to use items of the loc. set item 1 of the loc of
> object1 to item 1 of the loc of object2 might work if you can reference an
> item when you are setting something. Otherwise you will have to get the loc
> of object1 first, put item 1 of the loc of object2 into item one of it,
> then set the loc of object1 to it.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 15, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > The alignment pane in the property inspector allows us to do size, align
> and distribute selected controls in relation to each other. Does anyone
> know if this functionality can be accessed by scripting? Obviously I can
> figure it out and write my own handler, but can I just call the existing
> routines? Anybody know?
> >
> > Devin
> >
> >
> > Devin Asay
> > Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
> > Brigham Young University
> >
> >
> >
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