Ignoring the GUI inset

woot3 · August 7, 2018, 12:31am

Hey Developers!

We’ve got another awesome feature for you today!

Presenting IgnoreGuiInset: This property allows you to make a ScreenGui and its descendants completely ignore the GUI inset. This means you’ll no longer need to write code to position elements at the very top of the screen (or hard-code in the -36 pixel offset introduced by the top-bar).

This also means that an element with size 1, 0, 1, 0 will completely cover the entire screen, including the space beneath the top-bar.

This feature should be enabled on all platforms.

Stay innovative developers!

Anaminus · August 7, 2018, 12:47am

How does this interact with UserInputService, Mouse, GUI events, ScreenGui.AbsolutePosition, and other systems that involve screen coordinates?

wravager · August 7, 2018, 12:48am

The player list seems to be showing even when TopBar is disabled. Is this happening because of this change because it hasn’t happened since this was enabled.

EDIT: Appears to happen randomly for no reason. Must be an issue with :SetCore(‘TopbarEnabled’, false) or something.

woot3 · August 7, 2018, 12:50am

Great question! Everything still uses the same coordinate space. If you have IgnoreGuiInset set to true then your GUIs will be positioned from 0, 0, 0, -36.

Fangous · August 7, 2018, 5:32pm

thank mr brad

Arcwise · August 7, 2018, 5:33pm

Rock on Brad

xJennyBeanx · August 7, 2018, 6:07pm

Woot woot!

Maximum_ADHD · August 7, 2018, 7:47pm

I have added up-to-date documentation for the two API pages that were linked in this announcement!

http://robloxdev.com/api-reference/property/ScreenGui/IgnoreGuiInset
http://robloxdev.com/api-reference/function/GuiService/GetGuiInset

Quinnicious · August 7, 2018, 9:24pm

Excellent addition! Very useful for UI creation.

system · July 27, 2019, 1:55pm