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How to position a Gui depending on the last element in a table?

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10 years ago

I am trying to list about 10 Guis in a single line, sort of like a drop down menu, except in this case they don't disappear. It worked, but not exactly how it suppose to

ChallengeList is a table that store all the Guis that I added, if the table is empty than the first gui position would be 0, 3, 0, 3 and then it add up 23 from the last Gui inserted in the table ( 3 + 23 = 26)

There no errors, but what happening is that the first two Guis position become 0, 3, 0, 3 and the third one become 26 and so on. Anyone know exactly how I can solve this problem?

`1`	`Gui.Position` `=` `(ChallengeList[#ChallengeList-1]` `~=` `nil` `and` `ChallengeList[#ChallengeList-1].Position + UDim2.new(0,` `0,` `0,` `23))` `or` `(UDim2.new(0,` `3,` `0,` `3)`

Your question is confusing. Why do you care about that *last* item in the table? What makes the last thing special? BlueTaslem 18071 — 10y

Well I care about the last item because the item that I am inserting into thable, position need to be based on the last item. Later in the script I am going to update the list , that why I need to store all the GUIs. By update I mean fix the positioning where they no spaces between the guis, after a gui disappear. Kurieita 125 — 10y

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BlueTaslem 18071

10 years ago

If you have a list, then the nth element will just be at 3 + 23 * (n-1) y:

1for i = 1, #list do
2    -- label is your gui object
3    label.Position = UDim2.new(0, 0, 0, (i - 1) * 23 + 3)
4end

Alternatively, the first one is placed somewhere and the next is based on the previous:

01local previous
02for i = 1, #list do
03    -- label is your gui object
04    if previous then
05        label.Position = previous.Position + UDim2.new(0, 0, 0, 23)
06    else
07        label.Position = UDim2.new(0, 0, 0, 3)
08    end
09    previous = label
10end

The first one seems much simpler.

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