Why does a screen frame ignore xalign, yalign settings if it has two objects in it?

[henvu50]

As soon as you put two objects in this frame, the xalign & yalign stop working, why is that?!

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screen test8943():
    frame:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.5
        background None
        textbutton "why12323":
            action NullAction()
        imagebutton:
            idle "a1_idle.png"
            hover "a1_hover.png"
            focus_mask True
            action Jump("dfadf")```

I hate screens so much. This is such a waste of time. I shoudl be able to make a screen in a GUI interface in like 2 minutes, and then BE DONE with it. Instead, making screens goes from minutes to HOURS. what a waste of time.

[laure44]

I would suggest using vbox or hbox instead.

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screen test8943():
    vbox:
        xalign 0.5
        yalign 0.5
        textbutton "why12323":
            action NullAction()
        imagebutton:
            idle "a1_idle.png"
            hover "a1_hover.png"
            focus_mask True
            action Jump("dfadf")

But if you need the elements to overlap, you can also use fixed

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screen test8943():
    fixed:
        xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
        xfit True yfit True
        imagebutton:
            idle "a1_idle.png"
            hover "a1_hover.png"
            focus_mask True
            action Jump("dfadf")
        textbutton "why12323":
            action NullAction()

[Alex]

As soon as you put two objects in this frame, the xalign & yalign stop working, why is that?! ...

Maybe 'cause it should have one child - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#frame

[henvu50]

As soon as you put two objects in this frame, the xalign & yalign stop working, why is that?! ...

Maybe 'cause it should have one child - https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/screens.html#frame

It takes one child. If zero, two, or more children are supplied, then a fixed is created to contain them.

i missed that part, thanks!