Health bar on top of player/enemies

I have picked up on my game again and I want to know how to make the player have his health bar on top of his head similar to many rts games out there and also for the enemies which take some hits have their own health bar.

Any idea how to make it so that the bar floats on the player and enemies/whatever else with health?

and also change size depending on player/enemy health which I have no clue on how to do.

Thanks in advance.

What to do:

Make an image point above said enemy or player and say:

SYSTEM:always>Healthbar>set position to object>Player>image point 1.

>Healthbar>Set width=Player('health')

Here is a cap I did it in.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7605789/HOPEthisHELPS.cap

Touch the spikes to see how he loses health.

Even easier, set the x position to player.x-(desired width of bar/2) and the y to player.top-some amount.

Thanks guy's, both of you, however I wonder what the / actually is supposed to do? either way thanks for helping me out.

Thanks guy's, both of you, however I wonder what the / actually is supposed to do?

You mean the one in my post? It's division.

Containers work beautifully with this.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/construct/index.php?title=Containers

> Thanks guy's, both of you, however I wonder what the / actually is supposed to do?

>

You mean the one in my post? It's division.

My chars health position is X-50 and Y-120 yet it looks fine, I wonder why should I put the division sign for, either way it works so far, atleast for the player, I haven't put enemies with health yet but I will work that out later.

Because of this part:

and also change size depending on player/enemy health which I have no clue on how to do.

This way it will automatically adjust its x position for the length of the bar.