[2.0.76] line gui element stretchability doesn't persist across save-load cycle

[Osmo]

Creating a new line gui element for some reason sets horizontally_stretchable on its style to true. This is probably relevant, though technically not a bug, but i don't see a good reason why this isn't just a property on the default style instead of what seems like an in-engine exception, given it also cannot be read from the LuaStyle.

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If horizontally_stretchable is set to false by a mod, the element correctly becomes not stretchable. Writing nil later (importantly, needs to be at a different time) doesn't restore it back to stretchable since this is not what its LuaStyle nor style specification says it should do. The observed result is that the line has a width of 0 and cannot be seen.

Create a new world with the code below in control.lua to see this behaviour.
If the game is then saved, exited and loaded again, the line becomes stretchable and can be seen, which is incorrect.

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script.on_event(defines.events.on_player_created, function(event)
    storage.player_index = event.player_index
    local player = game.get_player(event.player_index)
    local frame = player.gui.screen.add{
        type = "frame", name = "frame",
        style = "inside_shallow_frame_with_padding",
    }
    frame.auto_center = true
    frame.style.width = 448
    frame.style.height = 200
    local flow = frame.add{type = "flow", name = "flow", direction = "vertical"}
    flow.style.vertical_spacing = 8
    flow.add{type = "button"}
    local line = flow.add{type = "line", name = "line"}
    game.print(line.style.horizontally_stretchable) -- prints nil
    line.style.horizontally_stretchable = false
end)

script.on_event(defines.events.on_tick, function(event)
    if event.tick == 2 then
        local player = game.get_player(storage.player_index)
        local line = player.gui.screen.frame.flow.line
        line.style.horizontally_stretchable = nil
    end
end)

[Rseding91]

Thanks for the report. Looking into this: if I wanted to implement a fix it would require removing the current "line" type and style and adding "horizontal_line" and "vertical_line" types and styles. That doesn't seem worth it at the moment. I believe - you can simply write = true/false to get the effect you want (don't stretch) rather than relying on the default styles.

[Osmo]

That makes sense. For my usecase it matters to be able to read default value, but i'll hack my way around that