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UI constraint for fitting view to contents
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I added a constraint target which allows a view to be automatically sized to fit its contents.
In the example below, the key line is:
at(bg).fit_size = at(mover).frame
import ui from ui3.anchor import at class Mover(ui.View): def touch_moved(self, t): self.center += ( ui.convert_point(t.location) - ui.convert_point(t.prev_location) ) root = ui.View() bg = ui.View( background_color='grey', ) root.add_subview(bg) for _ in range(5): mover = Mover( background_color='white', frame=(10, 10, 50, 30), ) bg.add_subview(mover) at(bg).fit_size = at(mover).frame root.present('fullscreen')
My use case for this constraint is that now I can place the containing view in a ScrollView, and then with another constraint update the ScrollView
content_size
whenever the contents change or move:attr(scroll_view).content_size = at(container).size
... thus getting automatic scrollview "activation" without needing to manually keep track of the content size.
To stress test this feature, and anchor constraints in general, I made a "matrix" version of the SFSymbol browser:
from ui3.sfsymbol_browser import SymbolMatrix SymbolMatrix().present('fullscreen')
... and what I noted is that instantiating the 2500+ symbols all at once in a view takes a while in general. And managing the layout purely with constraints was not feasible as the Python recursion depth limit was exceeded. 😁
But the new constraints worked, when I applied them only to the last symbol on each line.