Set ignored_by_interaction without setting it on children

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Set ignored_by_interaction without setting it on children

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I am (ab)using a flow to position a GUI in the bottom-right of the screen. I need this GUI to have a dynamic height, so what I ended up doing was putting it in a flow with a pusher above it, then setting the height of that flow to the height of the screen:
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It works remarkably well! ...Except for one problem: the flow blocks everything behind it from being clicked. It makes it impossible to use the top menu and click any entities in this portion of the screen.

So I would love a way to define ignored_by_interaction on the flow specifically, without setting it on the children as well - I need the GUI within the flow to be intractable.

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Why can't you just use LuaGuiElement.location?
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I am using it for the X position. I can't use it for the Y position unless I hardcode the height of the GUI, which won't play well with how this GUI is going to work. It needs to dynamically stretch up and down based on its content.
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What happens if you set the flow's width to zero and then apply negative left margin to the frame itself?

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I would also like to see this. Right now nesting interactive elements with any control over their alignment is practically impossible.

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