How to center the blocks?

[Antonio Dal Borgo]

Hi,
in my Blockly based app, when I load a script from file, the blocks are often loaded messily, I would like add a function that centers blocks automatically.
Thanks for any reply.

Antonio

[Beka Westberg]

Hello Antonio,

There are a couple of built-in functions provided by Blockly that may help you out.

1) The workspace.zoomCenter function centers the view of the blocks (without moving the blocks themselves).

2) The workspace.zoomToFit function puts all of the blocks within view (again without moving the blocks themselves).

3) The workspace.cleanup function, which moves the blocks so that they are all in a column.

If you want to create your own function that rearranges the blocks (similar to workspace.cleanup) I recommend checking out the source code for cleanup. This will show you which functions you might want to use to rearrange your blocks =)

I hope that helps! If you have any further questions please reply!

--Beka

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[Antonio Dal Borgo]

Thanks for the info, I solved the problem with cleanUp() and translate().

[Meer Estiyak]

zoomToFit makes it center but also zooms, how can i achieve this without need of scaling, i want the center only

[Tobias Mouritzen]

Hi,

I think you can use the workspace.scrollCenter()

[Meer Estiyak]

worked like a charm, thanks a million!