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I'm finding it a bit awkward to position items..

Looking at the properties of an object gives you the information of Top, Left, Right and Bottom Position. Where are these values referencing? is it the centre of the object, the top left corner or what? And from what 0 point?

When one looks at the animation settings I only get the option for setting the object to move across or down by an amount.

I'd like to be able to set an exact position to move to using information like that in properties!

Is this possible?

For example - I have a logo made up of 3 sections that I need to animate... then end up in the correct position building the logo.

At the moment its taking a long time and getting it just right is more luck than science!

I don't just want to use a transition - that's easy to do but doesn't give the desired effect

It's pixels as measured from the top left of the screen.

If you hover the mouse over the object you will see in the status bar the position of the object.

Note the 'mid' value.

Then add a move action and enter the midpoint values into the Across and Down box. (Across is the first of the two midpoint values)

In the Type section selectTo. (this will move the object to this position as opposed to the By which will move it across or down by that amount.

You could do an assembling logo by first setting up the objects in their finished position, noting the values and then moving them to their starting position and adding the move actions as described above.

See attached pub.

At last it all clicks together...

Why couldn't I see it before?!?

thanks for the help!

I found that useful as well, having puzzled over similar positioning problems.

Didn't take too much notice of the status bar before!

Wouldn't it be useful, though, if in Object Properties, there was also provision to set the Mid position, as well as just position?

That would really be the icing on the cake!

That would be very useful!

Perhaps an addition for an update?

Robin.. should we add this to the wishlist discussion?

I'll add this to our internal list of suggested features and we will look into including this functionality in a future update.

Many thanks,