Guys, I'm working on a project with a component that displays child sprites of different sites and allows the user to arrange them. The sprites are all rectangles of different sizes.
What I'm trying to do is create an auto-align which will crunch the children down into the smallest possible arrangement. I'm wondering if anyone has heard of or has some kind of logic that would help with this. FYI, I'm not looking for a handout. I've already gone through 2 different iterations of the logic and each has a bug once in a while. Where I run into issues is when I have one really tall sprite and a bunch of shorter ones. I get things aligned in a single row and then create another row on top and start lining up the additional ones, but really what should happen is I should have the larger sprite have a "rowspan" like you can with html tables. I've attached an illustration from the app. The top 2 images is start and after the auto align. This works well when the sprites are about the same size. The 2nd row is what happens with a taller sprite and much smaller sprites, and finally below is what I would like to have happen but am having issues getting there. Any help would be awesome. Thanks! -Jake
