Centre Point of Device Screen?

[Cyberbard]

Hi,

I'm wondering if there is a way to determine what the centre of a device screen is? For instance, in order to be able to use that point as a reference when creating and positioning other objects and making sure nothing falls off-screen.

I know you can position in relation to the screen edges, but that only goes so far in helping me achieve this. I really want to centralise things in my game.

Thanks in advance!


Edit:

I think I may have just realised that it is as simple as selecting the "Virtual Height" / 2. Can anyone confirm / deny that this is the appropriate way of doing it?

[Eliyahu]

The center is always (Width/2, Height/2)

[Sparckman]

Here is an example:

http://community.clickteam.com/threads/87388-Always-center-of-the-screen

[Simflare]

(Width/2, Height/2) does not give you the center of the window, it only tells you what half the width / height of the frame is. If the frame is bigger than the window, you will need something else.

To get the center of the X axis: X Right Frame - (( X Right Frame - X Left Frame ) / 2 )
To get the center of the Y axis: Y Bottom Frame - (( Y Bottom Frame - Y Top Frame ) / 2 )

That will give you the center of the window, regardless of how big the frame is, and it will adjust at gameplay if it is on an 'always' command.

To explain what it means For X Coordinate:

• The brackets are working out what the value of half the width of the visible window is - not the frame
• We then take that value from the X position of the Right Visible Edge of the screen to get the center of the window
• The Y coord is done the same way, just with the Y axis values

Hopefully that helps some people. If you're doing a scrolling game, this will be more useful.