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Mastering UI Development with Unity

You're reading from   Mastering UI Development with Unity An in-depth guide to developing engaging user interfaces with Unity 5, Unity 2017, and Unity 2018

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125520
Length 468 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dr. Ashley Godbold Dr. Ashley Godbold
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Table of Contents (12) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Designing User Interfaces 2. Canvases, Panels, and Basic Layouts FREE CHAPTER 3. Automatic Layouts 4. The Event System and Programming for UI 5. Buttons 6. Text, Images, and TextMesh Pro-Text 7. Masks and Other Inputs 8. Animations and Particles in the UI 9. World Space UI 10. Mobile-Specific UI 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Layout Element

The Layout Element component allows us to specify a range of size values of an object if it is being sized with an automatic layout. If the parent object tries to size it outside of these preferences, the Layout Element will override any sizing information being sent from the parent object.

To add a Layout Element component to a UI object, select Add Component | Layout | Layout Element from within the object's Inspector. The Layout Element has the following properties:

To use these properties, you first select their checkboxes to enable them; boxes will become available so that you can enter your desired values:

Ignore Layout

The Ignore Layout property can be used to have the object ignored by any automatic...

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