hposition attribute

The hposition attribute determines the horizontal position at which to display the item on the screen.

Applies to

<text> <picture> <video> <shape>

Syntax

/ hposition = decimal

or

/ hposition = variable

Parameters

decimal A decimal value expressing a percentage between 0 and 100.
variable A dynamically selected value. Click here for help with variable syntax.

Remarks

The value is specified as a percentage of the horizontal plane of the screen, where 0.0 corresponds to the left edge of the screen and 100.0 to the right. The default value is 50.0, which corresponds to the center of the screen.

Examples

The following randomly selects the position of the text to be the right, left, or center of the screen:

<text sometext>
/ items = ("ipsum")
/ hposition = noreplace(0, 50, 100)
</text>


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