align issue

[luoifong]

ok, it would seem that aligning a Text sprite on the stage wouldn't be
hard...so I'm probably missing something painfully obvious..

I created a Text sprite on the stage, selected it, opened the Align panel, and
clicked on the "Align Horizontal Center" button. But nothing happens. Actually
the only buttons that move the sprite are the "Distribute Horizontal across
stage" and the "Distribute vertically across stage"

How come the other buttons don't affect the sprite? What am i missing

[Dave Mennenoh]

You have to pick more than one sprite - so that it has something to align
to...

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[luoifong]

so, the button "Align horizontal center" is aligning relative to another
sprite, but not to the stage? So if I selected 2 sprites at the same time, how
do I align them relative to the stage. If I press the "Align horizontal center"
button it only aligns them center relative to each other. None of the other
align buttons align both sprites relative to the stage

I apologize if these are basic questions...I'm just trying to fully understand
how it works...doesn't seem to be the same as in Flash

[Dave Mennenoh]

I think it is the same in Flash actually... not positive though but I don't
know why it'd be different. I haven't used align in some time, but I think
it works based on the first sprite you select - the other sprites get
aligned to it... not to the stage.

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[Rob Dillon]

If you open the align... window from the Window menu, you'll see that
it is split into two sections: Align: and Distribute:

If you look at the last item in each row of the Distribute section,
you'll see that those buttons will position whatever is selected
relative to the stage. All of the other buttons are used to position
selected sprite relative to each other.

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[Ex Malterra]

yeah it's a pain sometimes to align to the stage. fireworks mx has an
align window with a button that lets you align relative to the stage,
maybe director mx 2004 will too. what i do now is do it by
coordinates. when you click on a sprite it's dimensions show in the
property inspector. just make the sprite's X(horizontal) and
Y(vertical) coordinates the center of the stage. for example, say your
stage is 640x480. make your sprite's X = 320, y = 240 and viola, right
smack dab in the center and middle. BUT, if the registration of your
sprite isn't it's center you'll have to do som math to adjust for it's
offset.