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nardove Full Member Offline Posts: 189 UK	dynamic space evenly horizontally Aug 25th, 2009, 1:44am   Hi, I am trying to figure out how to space even horizontally object of different width, any ideas? Cheers rS

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: dynamic space evenly horizontally Reply #1 - Aug 25th, 2009, 1:55am   Maybe this post can help http://processing.org/discourse/yabb2/?num=1223416980

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: dynamic space evenly horizontally Reply #2 - Aug 25th, 2009, 2:03am   Pseudo-code: Code: pos = 0 for (each object) { draw(object, pos) pos += object.width + spacing } If you need to fit a given width, you have spacing = (wantedWidth - totalObjectWidth) / (objectNb - 1)

nardove Full Member Offline Posts: 189 UK	Re: dynamic space evenly horizontally Reply #3 - Aug 25th, 2009, 2:14am   Hi PhiLo, What is (objectNb - 1)? is it the current object in the for loop? Cheers rS

PhiLho  YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 4190 Near Paris (France)	Re: dynamic space evenly horizontally Reply #4 - Aug 25th, 2009, 2:46am   Spacing is fixed, so you must compute it beforehand. objectNb is just the number of objects.