Screen Inset bug with nested frames on mobile

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#1

I ran into an issue where my UI wouldn’t show up when using either of the safe inset areas of the ScreenInsets setting along with ClipToDeviceSafeArea enabled. Anything on the right side of the screen works as expected. My UI on the left side would not show unless I offset the button to the right by 1 pixel. I have attached an example place, you can see the issue just by toggling any device with a notch (iPhone 14 Pro) back and forth between the device and pc under the testing tab.

SafeInsetBug.rbxl (55.0 KB)

Expected behavior

I would expect it to work like it does on the right side of the screen. Even if the frame is off screen it’s still visible, just clipped. If it’s on the left side it’s all or nothing.

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#2

Interesting bug, thanks for reporting!

#3

It looks like the NestedFrames have negative AbsoluteSize, which is causing the broken clipping behavior. Just wondering if this is intentional?

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#4

Hi @DJX_D, I was wondering if you could explain more about why are you need negative GuiObjects sizes for your usecase?

If possible, we would like to not support negative GuiObject sizes unless there is a good reason to. Thanks for your thoughts on this!

#5

Sorry I didn’t respond before, but I looked into your finding and realized this UI was made before anchor points existed, so I migrated it to using anchor points and it solved the issue. There’s no reason I know to support it other than if an abandoned but active game from before that time still needs it

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#6

Oh wow interesting, thanks for the historical perspective! I didn’t know there was a time before AnchorPoints existed! Glad to hear your issue is resolved!

I will close this ticket since we currently don’t have active support for negative GuiObject sizes.

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#7

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