How to set up a scroll pane properly

[Gergely]

How do I set up a scroll pane to display a list that is somewhat long in player.gui.center?

This is what I did:

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player.gui.center.add({type = "frame",name = "popup",direction = "vertical"})
.add({type = "scroll-pane",name = "popup-scroll"}).add(list-setup)

What happened, is that the list streched all the way through the top and the bottom of the screen and the scroll bar did not appear. How do I properly set it up so that it prevents my list from overflowing the screen?

[kikker450]

Define the dimensions of the scroll plane in the code itself. (see more at http://lua-api.factorio.com/0.16.6/LuaStyle.html)

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main_gui = player.gui.center.add({type = "frame",name = "popup",direction = "vertical"})
your_scroll_pane = main_gui.add(({type = "scroll-pane",name = "popup-scroll"})
   your_scroll_pane.style.maximal_height = 200 --for example

or instead of adding each style element separately you can create a style object

or you make a static gui in your data files