positioning image sprite in canvas

[ferhan2...@gmail.com]

I have the AlignHorizontal of my screen set to "Center". The width of my canvas is set to "screen width + 10" (adds extra 5 pixels to both sides of the screen which won't be visible). I have an image sprite in my canvas with a width of "screen width". I've set the x position of my image sprite to "5" since setting it to "0" will shift it to the left side of the screen. But when i run it on my mobile, the x position of my image spirte is still stuck at 0. How can i fix this??? It shouldn't be that complicated...the coding is pretty straightforward. 

[Taifun]

probably this is a timing issue?

my suggestion is to use a clock component and set the image sprite in the Clock.Timer event just a little bit later at position x=5

It would really help if you provided a screenshot of your relevant blocks, so we can see what you are trying to do, and where the problem may be.

Taifun

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[ferhan2...@gmail.com]

I don't understand why I would need a clock component when I'm not dealing with any animation at the moment. But here is a screenshot of my relevant blocks. They are really simple and straightforward.

[Enis]

You need to show us the blocks where you're dealing with the sprite and it's positioning...

[Scott Ferguson]

This may be similar to the problem that I was having with a Canvas that was 1440 pixels wide.

(You cannot set canvas width larger than 999 in the Designer)

I had to set the width to 1440 in the screen Initialize block, then start a timer which checked if the canvas had changed to the desired width.

Once it had resized, the app continued execution of other blocks.

See: Flappy Bat

So you might set the x value to 5 then start a timer to wait for the x value to change to 5.

Just something to try.

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Scott