Hi all,
Why does the Hello World example set the x & y to 0 when creating newText() and immediately change them after creating?
Like so:
– Set myX and myY to what the demo set x and y after creating myText
local myX, myY = (display.contentWidth / 2), (display.contentWidth / 4)
print("myX and myY “…myX…” "…myY);
local myText = display.newText( “Hello, Andrew!”, myX, myY, native.systemFont, 40 )
– I’m trying to understand why setting x & y in the newText() method is different from setting them after creating myText
–myText.x = display.contentWidth / 2
–myText.y = display.contentWidth / 4
When I use the code above the text is running off the screen. If I set myX & myY to 0 and then un-comment the last to lines everything works.
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