Drucegrove DragonFly User Manual 1.4
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The text elements can be arranged with even vertical spacing by positioning the “Lower Ground Floor” and “Third
Floor” elements manually, and then selecting all five text elements and using the
Distribute Vertically
command to
position the other three text elements automatically (
Arrange
→
Distribute Vertically
) .
With all five text elements still selected, use the
Align Center
command with the
Align Relative to Parent
option
checked to ensure that all of the text elements are centralised horizontally (
Arrange
→
Align Center
).
We’ll now draw a
Dynamic Rectangle
that will slide up and down behind the text elements to highlight the current
floor. Note that this would not work if we had used
Static Text
elements drawn on to the background layer, because
we could not have positioned the dynamic rectangle behind the text.
Select the
Dynamic Rectangle
sub element tool:
Draw the rectangle in the position shown below, and change its
Fill Colour
to a pale yellow:
