Step 1. Toggle the Visible property of the center element – the list layout does not update
Step 2. Cut and paste the center element back into the list, and note that it updates properly
Step 3. Toggle the visible property of the new center element – the list layout does not update
Step 4. Cut and paste the new center element back into the list, and note that it updates properly
Step 5. Toggle the visible property of the now and original center element, and note that it updates properly
Step 6. Cut out the UIListLayout. The elements lose their sorting
Step 7. Paste back in the UIListLayout. The elements are sorted again
Step 8. Toggle the visible property of the center element – it does not update the list layout
It looks like UIListLayout isn’t looking for property changes of elements unless they were added after the UIListLayout was. The Visible property is not the only one either, as the Size property experiences the same problem.
Bug 2.
Step 1. Cut and paste all elements back into the main frame so they’re being tracked by the UIListLayout
Step 2. Change the SortOrder from LayoutOrder to Name – nothing happens
Step 3. Cut and paste “Frame2”. It will be added to the bottom of the list, but “Title” remains at the top. There will always be a warning printed to the output:
UIListLayout sort function is unstable! Unable to find object Frame1 using binary search, had to resort to linear search
It looks like changing the SortOrder discards any knowledge and/or property listeners the UIListLayout had, and it does not rebuild them and update the sort with the new order.
I rename a few objects on a line at the same time and the ordering doesn’t seem to be updating correctly. My script does not create the UIListLayout, it is already existent inside a GUI.
LineAPI = {}
--//InsertLetter
function LineAPI:InsertLetter(LineNumber, Position, Letter, OwnInput) --Places letter after specified letter position | OwnInput decides whether the focuspoint should focus to new new letter
local Line = EditorUI.Content[LineNumber]
local LetterLabel = Instance.new("ImageLabel")
LetterLabel.ZIndex = 55
LetterLabel.BackgroundTransparency = 1
LetterLabel.ImageColor3 = settings().Studio["Text Color"]
LetterLabel.Name = Position+1
if FontData[Letter] ~= nil then
LetterLabel.Image = FontData[Letter].Image
LetterLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, FontData[Letter].Width, 0,16)
else
LetterLabel.Image = FontData.Unknown.Image
LetterLabel.Size = UDim2.new(0, FontData.Unknown.Width, 0,16)
end
local Letters = {}
for _, FLetter in pairs(Line.Text:GetChildren()) do
if FLetter.ClassName == "ImageLabel" then
if tonumber(FLetter.Name) >= LineNumber then
table.insert(Letters,FLetter)
end
end
end
for _, FLetter in pairs(Letters) do
FLetter.Name = tonumber(FLetter.Name) + 1
end
LetterLabel.Parent = Line.Text
if OwnInput == true then
LineAPI:FocusTo(LineNumber,Position+2)
end
end
Btw, it’s a script editor plugin I’m experimenting with at the moment so mind some of the lousy techniques
I’m using.
I already know I have some of my own errors but when i check the GUI that I re-parent to StarterGui. The UIListLayout is not correctly ordered.
To check the UI, make sure you have a script selected, press the toggle button and run the command in the executor: game.CoreGui.EditorUI.Parent = game.StarterGui
Then check inside the location EditorUI>Content>1>Text
Oh, excuse me, what I was saying was nonsense. I realized that this was indeed expected behavior.
I thought name order would work the same as doing number order but I realized the reason it didn’t work was because the order works like this: 1,10,11,12,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
We were originally planning on adding a lexicographic ordering which would handle numbers, but we ended up introducing LayoutOrder instead which works a lot better.
