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Position Display Objects in a Grid Layout

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<p>This is a short way of positioning display objects in a grid layout. It makes use of the modulo operator (%) to position each display object along the x axis and the floor method of the Math class for the y position.</p>

<p>This example creates 20 instances of a custom display object called MyDisplayObject positioning each instance in a grid 5 columns wide. As you may have guessed, the two 5's in the snippet represent the number of columns in the grid.</p>

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  1. for (var i:uint = 0; i < 20; i++)
  2. {
  3.     var displayObject:MyDisplayObject = new MyDisplayObject();
  4.     displayObject.x = displayObject.width * ( i % 5 );
  5.     displayObject.y = displayObject.height * Math.floor( i / 5 );
  6.     addChild(displayObject);
  7. }

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