CCLayoutBox with vertical direction: sort order is inverse of expected order

[LearnCocos2D]

If a layout box has 4 children, then the child nodes are displayed bottom up, ie 4th child node is at the top and 1st child node at the bottom.

Best seen in SpriteBuilder:

This happens only when direction is set to vertical, in horizontal mode the order of nodes is logical (quit is to the left, resume to the right).

[kalo]

this should be a simple fix.

accumulate the maximum height while searching for the max width, and subtract the rolling height from the max height as the nodes are organised.

[vlidholt]

This is not a bug, but I guess it can be a matter of discussion for how to do this. Bottom up, like the coordinate system – or top down like the UI often is layout.

This is, however, not an easy fix as changing this will break any ccb files in SpriteBuilder.

[kalo]

I didn't think of the effects of this in spritebuilder because I have yet to use it.

I suppose a third layout direction for top down could be added eventually

[vlidholt]

Yeah, that could be a better option, or a property that defines the direction.

[iMobCoding]

I gave a much simpler fix some time ago: https://github.com/cocos2d/cocos2d-iphone/pull/563

[slembcke]

Yeah... I remembered that issue but hadn't gotten around to checking out what happened to it. Is this a regression or did somebody change their mind?

[iMobCoding]

Yes it was committed then reversed for the same reason Vik posted here - breaking things in Sprite Builder... I agree, adding a property for 3rd layout direction would be the best. And making it the default for vertical direction

[ryanmarfone]

Top down and vert would be nice defaults