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Hi,

I'm currently trying to build a keybinding widget. I guess you all know it from other games. Basically, it's a label describing the keybinding and two buttons, where you can bind two different buttons to the same action.

I thought to put all the keybindings into a listbox. So, what's the best solution to do this? Should I subclass the listboxitem class, add two buttons and a text widget? Or can I do all this with a custom xml widget?

I'm really appreciate all help

Use ItemListbox! You can extend ItemEntry, and do the rest by looknfeel. Ive once done a checklistitem with this method (checkbox in front of the label...as item:) )

Levia wrote:Use ItemListbox! You can extend ItemEntry, and do the rest by looknfeel. Ive once done a checklistitem with this method (checkbox in front of the label...as item:) )

Okay, thanks for the info.

I took a look at ItemEntry, but I have no clue how to use it. I tried the search, but didn't find something that could help me.

What's the corret way of creating a subclass of ItemEntry? What's the use of the two string parameters of the constructor. I looked at MenuItem, but I still have no clue.

Levia wrote:Use ItemListbox! You can extend ItemEntry, and do the rest by looknfeel. Ive once done a checklistitem with this method (checkbox in front of the label...as item:) )

Levia needs to Wiki that...

I already did that! A while ago
http://www.cegui.org.uk/wiki/index.php/ ... istboxItem

I just used a MultiColumnList for keybindings Works well so far

Yeah same here

Thanks for the help so far.

Here's the look'n'feel I have so far:



It creates a static text and two buttons. Now I have one problem: I can't change the height of the ItemEntry. I changed the bold line, but without success. What's the correct way of doing it?

And can I set properties for the childs within the looknfeel? I want to disable the background and the frameborder of the static text.

Replace <FontDim type="LineSpacing" /> with <AbsoluteDim value="80" /> to specify a different type of dimension specification; an absolute dimension rather than one relative to a font. The original one is great if you want to code that looknfeel to support a font of size 10 as well as a font of size 36.

Rackle wrote:Replace <FontDim type="LineSpacing" /> with <AbsoluteDim value="80" /> to specify a different type of dimension specification; an absolute dimension rather than one relative to a font. The original one is great if you want to code that looknfeel to support a font of size 10 as well as a font of size 36.

Thanks for the answer, but that doesn't help much, because it's an absolut value (I guess in pixel). So, it's resolution dependent and that's not what I want. And when I use a uniform diff, nothing shows up. Or can I use something like 2*LineSpacing?

And one programming question: The text and buttons are added as child to the ItemEntry, so I guess I can access them like this:


Now, is there a virtual function or an event, which I can use to see, if they are added. Because I guess I can't use the above code in the constructor of my derived class as the text and buttons are not added yet.

From the Falagard System XML elements reference



The sample multiplies the line spacing by a factor of 1.5.

There's also the UnifiedDim :


>> And one programming question: The text and buttons are added as child to the ItemEntry, so I guess I can access them like this


Try the getName() of the item and then suffixing the _auto_ from the looknfeel:

createWindow("TaharezLook/KeybindingItemEntry", "MyWindow");
windowManager.isWindowPresent("MyWindow" + "__auto__action1");

Okay, thanks rackle for your help so far. I tried the multiply of the line spacing and it worked fine. The UnifiedDim doesn't work, I only get an empty ItemListBox.

And getting the children doesn't work. As I said before: When window gets created, it doesn't have it's children added yet. But I need to access them in order to set some properties of them.

And one more thing about the wiki article, there's a small mistake in the following code:

wfMgr.addFalagardWindowMapping("WindowsLook/CheckListboxItem", "CEGUI/ItemEntry", "WindowsLook/CheckListboxItem", "Falagard/ItemEntry");

must be:

wfMgr.addFalagardWindowMapping("WindowsLook/CheckListboxItem", "CEGUI/CheckListboxItem", "WindowsLook/CheckListboxItem", "Falagard/ItemEntry");

With the upper part, the CheckListboxItem gets ItemEntry as baseclass, which is wrong, as it needs the class CheckListboxItem as baseclass. In this case, it doesn't make a difference, as CheckListboxItem doesn't have member variables and there everything works as it should.

Okay, I found the method, it is initialiseComponents



Thanks everyone for the help