[SOLVED] Expanding an object in an hbox without moving other items

[Tess]

I have a series of buttons I'd like to put in an hbox and right now the transform they're all connected to sets their zoom based on whether they're idle, hovered, or selected. Simplified example:

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transform expand_button(member):
	fit "contain"
	on idle:
		Overshoot 0.25 zoom 1.0
	on hover:
        	Overshoot 0.25 zoom 1.1
    	on selected_idle,selected_hover:
        	Overshoot 0.25 zoom 1.35

screen party():
	hbox:
		align (0.5,1.0)
		spacing 20
		for member in current_party:
			imagebutton:
				auto member.portrait
				ysize 0.2
				xsize 1.0/(len(current_party)+1)
				at expand_button(member)

However, when the zoom increases, it pushes the other buttons away to preserve the spacing. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

[_ticlock_]

However, when the zoom increases, it pushes the other buttons away to preserve the spacing. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

1) If the buttons don’t need to be overlapped when zooming to max zoom value you can simply put the buttons inside fixed and specify appropriate xsize for the fixed and xalign for the buttons:

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transform expand_button():
    on idle:
	zoom 1.0
    on hover:
        zoom 1.1
    on selected_idle,selected_hover:
        zoom 1.35

screen party():
    hbox:
	spacing 20
	    for member in current_party:
                fixed:
                    xsize 200     # This should be at least xsize of button with max zoom
		    imagebutton:
		        auto member.portrait
			xalign 0.5 yalign 0.5
			at expand_button()

Maybe also specify ysize for the fixed.

2) If buttons need to be overlapped when zooming, hbox cannot be used, since it distributes its children based on their size and properties of hbox. In this case, I suggest directly specify xcenter of each button:

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screen party():
    for i, member in enumerate(current_party):
        imagebutton:
            auto member.portrait
	    xcenter (i+0.5)*200
	    at expand_button()

[Tess]

That's such a genius idea! Thank you so much!!