How do I proportionally position a sprite?

I want to position a bar on the screen based on the mouse x percentage across the screen. The pictures below demonstrate what I'm trying to achieve. I don't want the code or a capx - just the maths behind it

Grey box is the layout. Salmon box is the bar to be positioned.

As always, any help is much appreciated.

Thanks for reading.

-Crypt

[EDIT]

So far I have...

Mouse.X / Layout.Width * 100[/code:1gycr2d6]
[ul]
	[li]gives a number between 1 and 100 which is the percentage of screen width at the mouse x coordinate.[/li]
[/ul]

Well you first can calculate the percentage of mouse.x across the screen with:

percent = mouse.x / screen.width

When percent= 0 you want bar.x = 0

and when percent = 1 you want bar.x = screen.width - bar.width

This is assuming there is no scrolling going on and the origin of the bar object is on the left.

You then can use lerp to set it up:

bar.x = lerp(0, screen.width - bar.width, mouse.x / screen.width)

You may also want to clamp the percent value so it stays in the range of 0 to 1 like so:

bar.x = lerp(0, screen.width - bar.width, clamp(mouse.x / screen.width, 0, 1))

Clamp and Lerp are new to me. Thank you!

Trying it out right now...

I found lerp in the manual, but I have no idea how it works but it works beautifully and is super neat - far less complicated than I expected the formula to be. I'm going to assume that 'lerp' just deals with the complexities behind the scenes and I'm not gonna fuss over how it gets there.

Clamp - I cannot find in the manual - I'm guessing it works in a similar way to int().

Thanks for your quick reply —

Lerp (a, b, t) as an equation is:

a+t*(b-a)

Clamp(a,b,c)

Just takes a value "a" and limits its value to between b and c

This is all that clamp does:

If a<b set a to b

If a>c set a to c