Scaling HBoxContainer children results in loss of alignment

[tavurth]

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Issue description:
When scaling a child of HBoxContainer, the item no longer matches the HBox alignment.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Create a HBoxContainer
2. Set the layout to Top Wide
3. Add a child MenuButton
4. Scale the MenuButton rect rect.scale to (0.1, 0.1)

The MenuButton will now be half way across the HBoxContainer

Other information

[YuriSizov]

From what I can see, the rect_scale property on the MenuButton in this case is not editable and resets if you toggle visibility. Alignment is also displayed correctly after the toggling.

[groud]

This is the expected behavior. Children of containers get their size and position (which are proxies of the margins values), overridden by the container itself. Changing those values should not be done and might lead to unexpected behaviors.

I think there is already a PR somewhere to fix that by disabling the edit of those properties, but I could not find it.

[YuriSizov]

Here it is: #30623

[groud]

Exactly, thanks ! :)

[groud]

Oh, in fact I just realized that I am probably wrong. rect_scale is not rect_size and thus is not overridden by the parent container.

But this make this issue a duplicate of #19068.

[tavurth]

Thanks guys!

Glad to know it's not a bug. It had me confused for a while so I'm glad there's a PR to prevent editing of the properties.