How does :SetPosition work?

Dragonsboat · October 5, 2016, 2:54am

I’m trying to position my TouchButtons correctly using ContextActionService:SetPosition and it doesn’t seem to be working correctly?

ContextActionService:SetPosition("ActionName", UDim2.new(.5,0,.5,0))

I figured if I set the position to be in the center of the screen the button would be there, but the button ends up being on top of the jump button.

TheGamer101 · October 5, 2016, 3:22am

The position set for the button is actually relative to UDim2(0.7,0,0.5,0)

This is because the button is parented to a frame created by the ContextActionTouch CoreScript.

Here is where the frame for ContextActionService buttons is created:

github.com

ROBLOX/Core-Scripts/blob/098740e374197b4872ed6131d9e2034a4f39c0b5/CoreScriptsRoot/CoreScripts/ContextActionTouch.lua#L50


      
          end
          
          
function createContextActionGui()
          	if not buttonScreenGui and isTouchDevice then
          		buttonScreenGui = Instance.new("ScreenGui")
          		buttonScreenGui.Name = "ContextActionGui"
          
          
		buttonFrame = Instance.new("Frame")
          		buttonFrame.BackgroundTransparency = 1
          		buttonFrame.Size = UDim2.new(0.3,0,0.5,0)
          		buttonFrame.Position = UDim2.new(0.7,0,0.5,0)
          		buttonFrame.Name = "ContextButtonFrame"
          		buttonFrame.Parent = buttonScreenGui
          
          
		buttonFrame.Visible = not userInputService.ModalEnabled
          		userInputService.Changed:connect(function(property)
          			if property == "ModalEnabled" then
          				buttonFrame.Visible = not userInputService.ModalEnabled
          			end
          		end)
          	end

Dragonsboat · October 5, 2016, 5:54am

Thanks! Also I noticed that :UnbindAction() has a chance of not removing touchButtons if they were edited manually, if I wanted to get rid of them would I used :GetButton() and :Destroy()?

TheGamer101 · October 5, 2016, 4:42pm

Is this the case? It sounds like something that should be fixed.

Dragonsboat · October 5, 2016, 7:50pm

Says so on the Wiki

TheGamer101 · October 5, 2016, 9:10pm

Manipulating the button means getting the button with GetButton and then doing some re-parenting or something. If you only use the ContextActionService methods to change the button then it will be removed when the action is unbound.