y (property)

Get or set the vertical center position of a sprite on the screen.

Get

Get the vertical center position of the sprite.

let mySprite: Sprite = null

let vert = mySprite.y

let vert = mySprite.y

Returns

• a number that is the current vertical center position of the sprite on the screen.

Set

let mySprite: Sprite = null

mySprite.y = 0

mySprite.y = 0

Parameter

• value: the new vertical center position for the sprite object on the screen.

Sprite locations

The sprite image forms a rectangle with some number of pixel rows. The y postion of the sprite is the vertical location of the center column of the sprite’s pixels on the screen. The y position of the sprite can have a value that is greater than the height of the screen. It can also have a value that is less than the top side of the screen (the top of screen is 0 and the value of the y position of the sprite in this case is negative). When this happens, some or all of the sprite isn’t visible on the screen.

Example

Set the sprite x and y locations to 64. Have the sprite say what it’s y value is.

namespace SpriteKind {
    export const Example = SpriteKind.create()
}
let mySprite = sprites.create(img`
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 
7 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 7 7 
7 5 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 7 4 7 
7 5 5 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 7 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 7 2 2 2 2 2 2 7 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 7 2 2 2 2 7 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 5 7 2 2 7 4 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 7 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 5 5 7 7 4 4 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 5 7 8 8 7 4 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 5 7 8 8 8 8 7 4 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 5 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 4 4 4 7 
7 5 5 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 4 4 7 
7 5 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 4 7 
7 7 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 7 7 
7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 
`, SpriteKind.Example)
mySprite.x = 64
mySprite.y = 64
mySprite.say("I'm centered at y:" + mySprite.y)

See also

x, left, right, top, bottom