Concatenating?

samejima · #1 06-22-2008, 12:49 AM

Is there anyway to do this?

Code:

<Button Name="reset" OnPress="Temp=Parent.Input.Localtext
Parent. ## Temp ## .Visible=true" ScrollExtent="64,32" Size="64,32" Visible="false" />

Ideally I want to pull the number from input and show a window based on that number. I hope people understand what I'm trying to say.

**Drumstix42** · #2 06-22-2008, 01:11 AM

I too was trying to do something like this in the past. It's possible to do what you want, but you have to go about it in a different way.

In other words, you can't directly navigate the tree like that (with a variable).

I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do. But the way around is to make a second button, and then set the "tree location" as the OnPress of another button, and then trigger that button. We'll call that button "ButtonTrigger"

Code:

Temp=Parent.Input.LocalText
Parent.ButtonTrigger.OnPress=('Parent.')##(Temp)##('.visible=true')
Parent.ButtonTrigger.press=true

You can also do If statements, but that could get long if you had a lot of windows. Maybe if you wanted to hide some, when showing others. Just for example:

Code:

sString=Parent.Input.LocalText
bShowA=(Parent.WindowA.Name==sString)
bShowB=(Parent.WindowB.Name==sString)
bShowC=(Parent.WindowC.Name==sString)
Parent.WindowA.visible=(bShowA ? true : false)
Parent.WindowB.visible=(bShowB ? true : false)
Parent.WindowC.visible=(bShowC ? true : false)

**lordebon** · #3 06-22-2008, 08:10 PM

Couldn't you also just use the OnHover to set the variables, and then use the OnPress to do it?

IE,

Code:

OnHover="Temp=Parent.Input.LocalText
Actn=('Parent.')##(Temp)##('.visible=true')" OnPress="Actn"

Note the syntax of that may not be 100% right, but I remember using something like that in the past where I set the variables on hovering the button and then acted on them on press.

**Drumstix42** · #4 06-22-2008, 08:59 PM

OnHoverIn, yeah, that could work, too. Seems more prone to unintentional variable setting though. /shrug

**gm9** · #5 06-23-2008, 01:44 AM

Code:

OnHover="Temp=Parent.Input.LocalText
OnPress=('Parent.')##(Temp)##('.visible=true')"

For OnHoverIn you'd have to do it like the above, because you can't directly execute a parameter value in the OnPress. But as Drumstix said, seems like an error prone way to do it if you use it in code where timing matters.

Btw the non-OnHoverIn type concatenation to push variables to OnPress events is used all over ProfitUI, e.g. for the macro buttons on group/raid windows.

samejima · #6 06-23-2008, 02:25 AM

Thanks a lot guys for all the advice I'm fairly new to making more complex UI mods but its turning out really well so far. At the moment Im using it as a custom window though, can those not store location in your ui settings file? every time I Load up its hidden and pops up in the same location so I then have to move it. Is this something I'm doing wrong or just a side effect of custom windows?

**gm9** · #7 06-23-2008, 04:57 AM

Add this to the topmost <Page> node of your window:

eq2usescomwndcontrols="true"