How to get frame to autoscale when having fixed children?

[newbiemate]

I have this code:

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screen test:
    frame:
        xpos 100
        ypos 100

        vbox:
            fixed:
                text "hello"

The "fixed:" code seems to expand the vbox or frame to a huge size, probably to the screen size. This is the result: https://imgur.com/a/sKxwzc2

How can I get the frame to auto-scale with the child? So if the text was longer, like "blahblahblahblahblah", then the frame's width auto-scales to hold that text, and nothing more?

[Alex]

Get rid of 'fixed", neh?

[newbiemate]

Is it standard behavior to have "fixed" take up the whole screen?

[MaydohMaydoh]

"This creates an area to which children can be added. By default, the fixed expands to fill the available area, but the xmaximum and ymaximum properties can change this."
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#fixed

And as far as I'm aware, you should only really use fixed if you have no other container. I think.

[newbiemate]

Ah yeah, I figured xmaximum and such would do it, and it does work. However, I'm using fixed because I wanted to stack different elements together. ie, stacking a screen text and imagebutton together is done using fixed.

I was hoping the frame would still auto-calculate the size of the children, but because fixed screws up, I'll have to precalculate the sizes instead. Unless there is a more friendly way to stack a text on top of an imagebutton?

[MaydohMaydoh]

Don't know if this would help you or not but instead of using imagebuttons with text, I use textbutton and just change the background, hover_background etc.

Also I never use fixed so I'm not sure how it works, but try giving it the xfit False and yfit False styles.
https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/style_pr ... properties