Anchor system with widget container

[retroactive64]

Hi,

for the most part the anchor system works as expected, i have one small problem though:
i want to anchor a sprite to the bottom of a widget container which contains two labels.
i thought it would work as if i would set a label as target (which works) but its drop downs are set to "Target Center" and greyed out
and if i disable a label inside the container the sprite does not move accordingly.

I can see the extend of the widget container correctly updating (Editor view) but the anchor system does not work.

How can i set a container as anchor target?

NGUI Version: 3.7.4

thanks

retroactive64

[ArenMook]

If you only see "target center" and the selection is grayed out, then you've anchored to a transform, not a widget. Widget container doesn't have dimensions. It's just a helper class that assumes in-editor dimensions of the content within it for easy dragging.

[retroactive64]

thanks for your answer but which widget takes underlying widgets in the hierarchy into account (width/height rect) when being used as an anchor?

[ArenMook]

None. If you want that kind of behaviour, you should look at UIWrapContent. It's able to resize one widget to envelop the contents of a target object.