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Anchor Reference

Anchor objects to the window's bounds. Read more explanations about it.

Anchor

Anchor objects to the window's bounds.

Behavior properties

  • Bottom edge (Choice, one of: "No anchor", "Window top", "Window center", "Window bottom", "Proportional"). Anchor the bottom edge of the object on Y axis. Default value is No anchor.
  • Left edge (Choice, one of: "No anchor", "Window left", "Window center", "Window right", "Proportional"). Anchor the left edge of the object on X axis. Default value is No anchor.
  • Anchor relatively to original window size (🔘 Boolean). otherwise, objects are anchored according to the window size when the object is created. Default value is true.
  • Right edge (Choice, one of: "No anchor", "Window left", "Window center", "Window right", "Proportional"). Anchor the right edge of the object on X axis. Default value is No anchor.
  • Top edge (Choice, one of: "No anchor", "Window top", "Window center", "Window bottom", "Proportional"). Anchor the top edge of the object on Y axis. Default value is No anchor.
  • Stretch object when anchoring right or bottom edge (deprecated, it's recommended to leave this unchecked and anchor both sides if you want Sprite to stretch instead.) (🔘 Boolean). Default value is false.
See internal technical details
  • Bottom edge is stored as bottomEdgeAnchor (Choice). Default value is No anchor.
  • Left edge is stored as leftEdgeAnchor (Choice). Default value is No anchor.
  • Anchor relatively to original window size is stored as relativeToOriginalWindowSize (Boolean). Default value is true.
  • Right edge is stored as rightEdgeAnchor (Choice). Default value is No anchor.
  • Top edge is stored as topEdgeAnchor (Choice). Default value is No anchor.
  • Stretch object when anchoring right or bottom edge (deprecated, it's recommended to leave this unchecked and anchor both sides if you want Sprite to stretch instead.) is stored as useLegacyBottomAndRightAnchors (Boolean). Default value is false.

No expressions for this behavior.

The Anchor extension is always installed in all GDevelop projects: there is no need to add it from the Project Manager.

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