Keep aspect of a frame

artblanc

Hi,I don't seem to find a way to create a frame with the desired needs. I'm trying to do this with the UI controls, configuring the anchoring and all the other control properties. If this is not possible, I will do this programmatically.I will need to center a frame with fixed distance to top and bottom but with varying distance to left and right. These horizontal distances need to be free because I want to keep the aspect ratio of the frame when scaling.I attach an image trying to clarify these points.

Megalomaniak

anchor a panel to top-center and bottom center? then everything else can be the panels children and placed relative to that panel. Don't want the panel visible, only the children? There's a self-opacity setting in the inspector with the panel selected.

artblanc

Hello Megalomaniak,First of all, thanks for your time.The problem with the solution you are proposing is that the aspect ratio of the centered frame is not maintained. When the window is resized vertically, the frame will be resized only vertically, the width of the frame will be the same. In order to make it work I will need to add a script that modifies the width of the frame, recalculating margin-left and margin right, in order to keep the frame aspect ratio (old_width/old_height = new_width/new_height).If I don't find a way to do it just configuring the GUI elements, I will need to add the mentioned script. Writing the script is not a problem, I was just trying to avoid it. I was afraid of missing some important parts of the GUI nodes that helped me to accomplish this.

Megalomaniak

That's basically how I envisioned doing it yeah, I don't really see any issue with it performance wise either, its not like it has to check to update every frame. I'd set it at _ready() and only have certain 'actions' or signals 'force' the update as needed, assuming that you need it to change during scene/level runtime.