Display text center of scene

ryast

This is weird and almost shamefully funny!

I just finished a decently complicated game but I can't get a simple display text to show up in the middle of the screen!

My project is in iPad portrait mode.

I have a spawner actor at the bottom of the screen, below the viewable area of the stage.

In the spawner, this is how my code to show the display text looks:

but it does not display the text in the middle... what am I doing wrong?
(the top one is for the first position and the bottom for the second position)

jigglybean

Whats the resolution size of your screen? If its the ipad just try 512/384 which is the centre of the ipad screen.

ryast

Putting in raw numbers is working fine... but I want to get it to do it automatically (I have a programming background and I prefer not to use hard coded values)

Braydon_SFX

@ryast - I'm willing to bet that when you're previewing, you're previewing at 50%. Try previewing at 100%.

The reason for this is that when you preview at 50%, the screen size isn't actually 1024x768 (if you're making iPad game). Obviously, when you publish and test on an actual device, it'll show up in the middle just fine.

BBEnk

It's because game.screen.size still detects original build size of 1024 even if you select iphone5.ETC if you open actor and use scene.camera.size it will work correctly.

ryast

Braydon_SFX, at half size it does not show me anything, at full size it still is acting goofy, see for yourself:
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BBEnk, not sure where you mean to change those values
I opened the actor but where do I find scene.camera.size?

BBEnk

You should have said you was using my Universal build,lol here I reworked it just a bit for you so you can understand better and changed some notes.

I also added some new videos to my thread below that have sound and explain things much better.

http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/72589/universal-builds-for-ios-and-android-and-anything-else-using-ipad-build-and-stretch-no-distortion/p1

ryast

you da man, dude! Will only be using your UB from now on! Thanks! Will have a look and write back if it does not sink in!

ryast

@BBEnk, as promised, am back
Two questions if you dont mind:

You wrote: "You don’t need a loop if using constraints see my new videos in my Universal Thread."
I did see your video/s, you said something about Android having a problem if not in a loop...or did I get that wrong and thats no longer a problem so the loop is not needed?

One of my problems was I was using the prototype instead of using instances... right?

BBEnk

@ryast a loop or a constrain will work you don't need both, I only used loop because I had already built my game using change attributes so I put them in a loop.

Yes you need a instance to detect device at start and set camera size on scenes.

ryast

Thanks again BB, have a sunny day

BBEnk

Your Welcome.

Socks

@ryast said:
but it does not display the text in the middle... what am I doing wrong?

Both Your X and Y positions are set to 'height', the X coordinate should be set to 'width'.

ryast

Thanks Socks, but I was juggling the values, even when one was set to width and the other to height it didnt work. But BBenk got it sorted so no worries

Cheers!