Hey for npc dialogue i want to popup a small vertical menu with answer options. The amount of options will change so i want the size of the menu to change with it. It should work like in animal crossing for example. My issue is that the background will be used as a vbox item and be above the buttons whatever i try.
#Giving a VBoxContainer a Background and border
sullen raptor
sullen raptor
Something like this but adjusting size with more text options
lilac kiln
I think that you can use a Panel as a parent of the VBoxContainer
look into 9 slice as well : https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_ninepatchrect.html
sullen raptor
I think that you can use a Panel as a parent of the VBoxContainer
I want the background to size to the content wich is not happening with both solutions when i tried
lilac kiln
Can you share an example ?
sullen raptor
Can you share an example ?
Example for what i mean or how its not working?
lilac kiln
Nevermind, I'm looking into it, I thought that it resized automatically 
sullen raptor
Oh thanks for the effort
lilac kiln
PanelContainer is the one that resizes itself based on its children but Panel doesn't
sullen raptor
PanelContainer is the one that resizes itself based on its children but Panel do...
That works! Does the panel change with the theme editor or can i change the look somewhere else?
lilac kiln
Nice!
You can override the theme settings in the inspector or you can create a theme and assign it
sullen raptor
Oh yeah got it thanks you helped alot
lilac kiln
If you want to use a NinePatchRect, it will resize itself to the size of PanelContainer if it is one of its children, NinePatchRect is the node you'd use to get the Animal Crossing look where it can stretch on the sides but the corners stay the same
No problem 
sullen raptor
What do you mean with the corners are staying the same?
lilac kiln
it's called Nine Slice, it's a technique used to scale UI elements
it's a texture with 9 parts, the corners (1, 3, 7, 9) are never stretched, however the sides (2, 4, 6, 8) and the middle (5) can either be stretched or tiled (repeated)
sullen raptor
Oh so when it has texture in the middle it doesn't look weird thats cool thanks :)
lilac kiln
No problem, I never used it in Godot so I don't know what the workflow is but it doesn't look that complicated to figure out