General help

[Neil]

Instead of creating millions of small threads and cluttering the forum, I'll just post all my questions here

First up - how can I programmatically change the colour of the font? I have a dropdown combo box with names of colours. I'd like for the name of each colour to be coloured in with the respective colour, or at the least all the text inside that combo box being the currently selected colour.

Second up - I'd like a picture on the form which changes depending upon the selection of another dropdown box. It's a selection of factions, and the picture is going to be the logo of the currently selected faction. I've looked at static image but can't find any way to dynamically change its image. It's just a straight bmp/png I need, nothing fancy.

Thank you.

[JoseMan]

Hi,

the second to your 2nd question:
If I understand right, you need something, how you define the image for a window dynamic:

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Window* img = WindowManager::getSingleton().getWindow("Example/Window/StaticImage");
img->setProperty("Image", "set:BackgroundImage image:full_image");

BackgroundImage is the image you want to set e.g. "theImage.png".

Taken from this link.

Ciao J...

[CrazyEddie]

And for the first question:
Font's do not have colour (or any other property other than their size for freetype). The colour is set on the text/item, so for the combobox you need to set the colour via the (presumably) ListboxTextItem::setTextColours function - which can be done when you create them or later on if you need to change it.

In 0.7.x versions you can also use tags in the text to set colours, so the text:

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"[colour='FFFF0000']This is RED"

would show up as red.

CE.