New extension: Align to Screen

[Atikksh]

Description

This extension adds four behaviours:

Align to Screen:

• Move the instance of an object to a certain distance away from a chosen edge
• Keep the object centered

Expand with Screen (For 9-Patches):

• Without moving the object, resize it to be a certain distance from any edge or all edges

Space objects evenly (Multiple instances of an object):

• Space the objects evenly with a margin from the edges
• Space the objects evenly with a given spacing between them and center the group
• Works only from left to right as of version 1

Space objects evenly:

• A seperate behaviour for text objects.

How to use the extension

If you put behaviour Align to Screen on an object, five new actions are added. There are four actions that place it a certain distance from a given edge. The 5th action centers the object on the screen.

If you put behaviour Expand with Screen on a 9-Patch, one new action is added. This action can be used to resize it such that it is a certain distance from a given edge or all edges.

If you put behaviour Space objects evenly on a sprite or a text (there are two seperate functions for these), it adds two new actions. The first action spaces the objects evenly with the first and last touching the left and right edges or a specified distance from those edges. The second action spaces the objects evenly with a given spacing and aligns them to the center.

Checklist

• I've followed all of the best practices.
• I confirm that this extension can be integrated to this GitHub repository, distributed and MIT licensed.
• I am aware that the extension may be updated by anyone, and do not need my explicit consent to do so.

What tier of review do you aim for your extension?

Community (Unreviewed)

Example file

Extension file

AlignToScreen.zip

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The following issues have been found by the system concerning the respect of those best practices by your extension:

  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'fullName' of the extension description has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'From_left_edge' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'From_top_edge' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'From_right_edge' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'From_bottom_edge' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'Expand_to_Left' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'Left_Right parameter 'Instance_ID' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'sentence' of the function 'Left_Right_Sp' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'Left_Right_Sp parameter 'Instance_ID' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'Left_Right parameter 'Instance_ID' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'sentence' of the function 'Left_Right_Sp' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the function 'Left_Right_Sp parameter 'Instance_ID' has a dot, but it is forbidden there!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the behavior 'Align_Single_Item' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the behavior 'Expand_with_screen' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the behavior 'Space_Evenly' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Dots in sentences]: Field 'description' of the behavior 'Space_Evenly_Text' misses a dot at the end of the sentence!
  ⟶ ❌ [Filled out names and descriptions]: Required field 'description' of the function 'Expand_to_Left parameter 'Distance' is not filled out!
  ⟶ ❌ [Filled out names and descriptions]: Required field 'description' of the function 'Expand_to_Left parameter 'Edge' is not filled out!
  ⟶ ❌ [Semantic versioning]: Version '1' is not a semantic versioning compliant version number!

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