hbox: distribute its children to all available xsize

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Hi, everyone!

What is the proper way to distribute hbox children to all available x_size.
I would like to have the following:
border element1 spacing element2 spacing element3 border
with spacing calculated automatically.

If I simply use:

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hbox:
    xfill True

it adds additional spacing after the last element:
border element1 spacing element2 spacing element3 spacing border

adding

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xalign 0.5

has no effect since it is already using all available x_size
I can manually specify the spacing and use xalign to achieve the desirable effect:

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hbox:
    xalign 0.5 
    spacing ((x_size-num_of_elements*element_x_size)/(num_of_elements-1)) 

But I would like to avoid doing it explicitly.

I was suggested to add null width at the start to make it visually centered:

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hbox:
    xfill True
    null width 0
    #other elements

border spacing element1 spacing element2 spacing element3 spacing border

However, is it a simle way to achieve the desirable pattern with variable number of elements:
border element1 spacing element2 spacing element3 border

[PyTom]

I'm treating this as a feature request, and tracking it at https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/3666

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I'm treating this as a feature request, and tracking it at https://github.com/renpy/renpy/issues/3666

PyTom,

Thank you!

I truly appreciate the time and effort you put into doing an excellent job with Ren'Py!