Align property for actors accessible in apply

[limbusdev]

Hi there,
would it make sense to make Actor's align property accessible in the apply method? For some reason (difficult layout adaptions on changing size, I guess) align property has no setter, therefore this is not possible:

val root = Group().apply{

    x = 10f
    y = 20f
    align = Align.bottomLeft
    width = 100f
    height = 50f
}

It would be very pleasant to be able to do this. And code would look even tidier. Any thoughts? Cheers, Gem

[czyzby]

I don't think most actors have align property in the first place, so there is no way to implement this reliably. If you try using Group.align or Group.setAlign, you'll see compilation errors simply because these properties/methods do not exist.

If you're talking about actors that are stored in a table though, try the cell extension method:

table { 
  label("Test").cell(align=Align.bottom)
}

You can also access the cell with the lambda argument when you're using a configuration block and want to keep all of the settings next to each other:

table {
   label("Test") { cell ->
    this.fontScaleY = 2f // Your custom widget settings.
    cell.align(Align.bottom) // Table cell settings.
  }
}

Note that the cell extension method and the lambda parameter in the configuration block are complementary and can both work at the same time, but you usually want to keep the cell configuration in the same place.

You can find more examples in ktx-scene2d README. Check the sections on cell settings.