UserString Property for Window class

[zola]

sorry if this has been asked before, but i didn't find it in the forum.

it would be great to have to possibility to add some user defined string to a window in the layout definition xml.

I have seen that there is a method get/setUserData but this is obviously only available through the API, it's a void* after all

How about a UserString property that we could access through API and XML? I'd use this to define in the xml which script function a button should trigger.

Cheers
Tom

[CrazyEddie]

That's a possibility, though I do have an <Event> XML element planned which allows you to specify an Event name and the name of a script function to execute.

Example:

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<Window Type="TaharezLook/Button" Name="QuitButton>
    <Property Name="Position" Value="x:0.5 y:0.5" />
    <Property Name="Size" Value="w:0.1 h:0.1" />
    <Property Name="Text" Value="Quit!" />
    .
    .
    .

    <Event Name="Clicked" Function="quitClicked" />
</Window>


This obviously would make use of the ScriptModule interface, so you'd have to write something to support that (very easily done, if you've not done it already, I can advise if required).

If you like the Event idea, I'll bump it up the TODO list and get it in over the coming weekend.

CE.

[zola]

Wow, yes please make it higher prio.

I think I'll take the time then and implement the angelscript module

[CrazyEddie]

Okay, this will be in by sometime Saturday morning.

For the scripting module all you're looking at is about three methods; one to execute a script function with no args, one to execute a script file, and one to execute a script function as an event handler, this last one is the one that will be called via an internal binding created from the <Event> XML tag.

CE.

[CrazyEddie]

The <Event> element is now available for layout XML files (CVS-head). Usage is exactly as described above, I hope you got your ScriptModule working

Please allow 5 hours for anon access to sync.

CE.