Automatic expansion of UIScrollingContainer in x & y dimensions simultaneously - breaks the scroll bars.

[Matteo-Barberis]

PLEASE HELP ME IT WILL TAKE YOU ONE SECOND. IT'S A YES OR NO ANSWER.

What I want is simple: a container that stores items and allows me to scroll through them without any issues. It seems like a straightforward requirement, so I’m puzzled as to why I can’t find a solution.

I am trying to add components inside a window or container, and I want a scrollbar to be generated when those components exceed the available vertical space. So far, everything seems to be set up correctly, but the scrollbar is not functioning as expected—it goes out of bounds when i reach the end of the container and appears quite buggy.

Can the library support something like this? I've tried everything.

import pygame
import pygame_gui

pygame.init()
window = pygame.display.set_mode((800, 600))
manager = pygame_gui.UIManager((800, 600))

container = pygame_gui.elements.UIScrollingContainer(
    relative_rect=pygame.Rect((50, 50), (300, 400)),
    manager=manager
)

for i in range(20):
    pygame_gui.elements.UILabel(
        relative_rect=pygame.Rect((0, i * 35), (280, 30)),
        text=f"Item {i+1}",
        manager=manager,
        container=container
    )

clock = pygame.time.Clock()
while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            exit()
        manager.process_events(event)

    manager.update(clock.tick(60)/1000.0)
    window.fill((128, 128, 128))
    manager.draw_ui(window)
    pygame.display.update()

[MyreMylar]

Hi there. I would try adding:

should_grow_automatically=True,
allow_scroll_x=False,

To the parameters of the UIScrollingContainer. It looks like the code to expand the container automatically - added in the last version - doesn't work when it expands in both x and y simultaneously.

I'll see if I can fix it, but I'm less familiar with this code as I didn't write it.