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It seems like there's problem with the mod api ability to create buttons.

Example:
This creates a button where the icon is centered despite the style having the setting: icon_horizontal_align = "left"
This is not the same as the real map preview button which has the icon on the left.

I would like to be able to have the icon and the caption left aligned but the icon before the caption, not overlapping.

I can't find any other setting that can do the job, and trying to nest an image in a flow in a button does not work with automatic ui-scaling, it doesn't seem to be possible to get the positioning correct at multiple ui scales.

Thanks for the report. I'm not sure if this is a bug. The style property "icon_horizontal_align" is only used by the IconButton type which isn't exposed in the mod API. The sprite button doesn't use the concept of "icons" so I don't know if it even makes sense to have it pay attention to that style property.

IconButton uses button_style but only so we don't have to duplicate all of the styles/logic from buttons.

For now I'm going to say this is working as intended. SpriteButton != IconButton and as such SpriteButton pays no attention to style properties added for use by IconButton.