[Xerte] Positioning icons relative to the previous icon.

[Paul Swanson]

I'm attempting to build a table using multiple text icons. I'm using
individual text icons for each cell in combination with drawBorder in a
script icon. I've been manually computing the y coordinate by adding the
height of the previous icon to the y coordinate of the previous icon.
It's time consuming, and I'm thinking there must be a better way. I've
tried variations of icon.previousSibling._y, but it seems to be
returning 0 (or, more likely, undefined) because it always ends up at
y=0.

I've currently got icon.previousSibling.attributes.y +
icon.previousSibling.attributes.h as the y property, but that makes the
text disappear completely (perhaps it's off the stage?). Do I just have
the wrong property, or is this because the properties of the
previousSibling are unknown when the next icon is encountered?

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 Paul Swanson
 Instructional Designer
 Harland Financial Solutions
 800.274.7280 Ext. 2462
 Paul.Swanson at harlandfs.com
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