So this seems like a simple feature, but I haven’t been able to find it mentioned. Is there a way to scroll a scroll box with content in the widget layout editor?
Right now I am working around this problem by making the contents a separate widget so that I can move them around but this is starting to become cumbersome for more complex layouts.
One thing that worked for me is selecting elements in the widget hierarchy, this automatically scrolls the scroll box to that element.
I feel like this was added recently, around 4.23 perhaps. A game changer.
yeah, unfortunately if you have a large scroll area and you are trying to place an element over the top half way down that feature really doesn’t help. It just jumps back and forth as you select different parts making it very hard to achieve anything.
I was hoping for more of an activate widget scroll hotkey type of deal. I feel like that would be far more useful.
Let me clarify my use case. Basically I have a Canvas Panel inside a Scroll Box, so I should be able to place elements anywhere inside of that canvas panel. However, because selecting the canvas panel scrolls you to the start and selecting any floating element inside the canvas panel scrolls you to the very end, it becomes very hard, maybe even impossible to place things where you need them.
Not only that, but it gets weirder. When these elements have children, selecting those children will cause it to scroll to the very top or bottom back and forth as you move down the hierarchy.
I am starting to think this may actually be a bug.
Scroll boxes sort children based on their place in the hierarchy. Try dragging your element into the list, not into the scroll box in the viewport.
Maybe. Yes, its behavior is weird. What if you temporarily take the canvas panel out of the scroll box, organize it how you need it, and then put it back in?
That is quite a good workaround for most things. Definitely feels a bit hacky though, and I am just very surprised there is no manual scroll feature.