Guilayout box

Scripting
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I want to make a box through the autolayout and punt gui controls in it.

The reference says the following:

Make an auto-layouted box.

This will make a solid box. If you want to make a box with some contents inside, use the style paramenter of one of the subgroup functions (BeginHorizontal, BeginVertical, etc…).

I tried passing BeginVertical as a GuiLayoutoption but unity didnt like it. I also tried the begin vertical before/after the box and the endvertical at finished content, also no good.

Can anyone tell me how i can put controls inside an automatic box?

PS: sorry if this question is already asked but i couldnt find a search function in the forum and there are too much entries to look through.

2

Post some code so people can see what you’re trying to do.

Have you read this: Unity - Manual: IMGUI Layout Modes

It should explain GUILayout pretty well. :wink:

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I did actually read the gui layout multiple times. And also the gui scripting guide. It is just the use of the Guilayout.Box which is confusing.

                // Make an area to contain chat
                GUILayout.BeginArea(window);
                GUILayout.BeginVertical();
                // Add box and a space
                GUILayout.Box("Chat"); //(new Rect(0, 0, window.width, window.height), "Chat");

                // Show screen with chat
                GlobalChatWindow();

                GUILayout.EndVertical();

                // End created area
                GUILayout.EndArea();

I want all the controls made in the globalChatwindow function (a scrollview with labels, a textfield and a button) to be INSIDE the box. I commented out the box i previously made with Gui.Box.

I would like to be able to define the controls to go into the box, besides just 1 text you can fit in there.

That is what the manual says on the section. So i tried to use BeginVertical as a layout option which of course failed. Starting beginVertical before or even after the box made the box stop before other controls begin.

My question now is how do i get a scrollview a textfield and a button Inside the Guilayout.box?

4

You can’t put other controls inside a box created with GUILayout.Box. The GUI elements that can contain other elements are the ones with matching BeginXXX and EndXXX functions (BeginHorizontal, BeginVertical, BeginArea and BeginScrollView.

5

If the box cant contain anything what would it be used for?

And why do they suggest putting contents inside the box if it is not at all possible:

The quote would lead me to believe there should be a way?

6

Okay, i see i was being a bit stupid. I am using a scrollview. I styled the scrollview as a box and it looked fine. I have the look of the box and the controls inside :slight_smile:

Thankyou all for the replies

7

Got the same question -I have absolutely no idea how to use a GUI box and fill it with content. The docs are not clear enough on this topic :frowning:

The docs say:

Using a “style” parameter? “Subgroup functions”? Huh? :shock:

Is there a sample code anywhere that shows how to use such misterious magic boxes?

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Since I searched for the same thing and found this thread, I post the answer here. The solution is quite simple:

GUILayout.BeginVertical("MyBox", GUI.skin.box);
GUILayout.Space(20); // spacer to account for the title
// ... your box content ...
GUILayout.EndVertical();
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