Allow UI Constraints to be put in Folders

[Mah_Bucket]

As a Roblox developer, it is currently hard to create a complex UI using constraints. I usually sort UI elements in folders to make it easier to find them, but for some reason UI constraints can’t be put in folders. Is this necessary? It’d make life a lot easier if UI constraints could be put in folders.

[EmeraldSlash (Rio)]

They are working on this.

Add filtering functionality to UI constraints

I believe the solution to this problem is to fix GuiObjects placed inside Folders, which we have some scheduled time for. I personally would like to get that fully fixed within the next 6 months, but we’ll see. We currently are only tracking one bug related to this - please report issues so that we can fix them. While you do still have the nested hierarchy, at least there isn’t a Frame that you have to go and manually make invisible + UDim2.new(1, 0, 1, 0) sized.

[Mah_Bucket]

Oh, my bad, I missed that.

[EmeraldSlash (Rio)]

All good

That particular quote was nested quite deep in the broader scheme of things lol

[Tiffblocks]

I am currently working on a large change to the internals of the GUI system that allows this as a side effect.

UILayouts will only position their direct siblings, not things that are inside of folders or outside their parent folder. Example:

> GuiObject
|->Folder
|  |->UIListLayout A
|  |->GuiObject manipulated by A
|->Folder
|  |->UIListLayout B
|  |->GuiObject manipulated by B
|  +->Folder
|     +->GuiObject with default positioning
+->GuiObject with default positioning

I hope this is the most intuitive behavior.

We are pretty close to being able to recommend the use of folders for organizing UI elements. @Fractality_alt recently fixed a bug where gamepad input didn’t work right for GuiObjects in folders. If you run into any additional problems with using folders, please report them.