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Talking about the listboxrow:listboxName parameter.

 

Would it be possible to concatenate this value to obtain something like this:

 

OnLeftClick=UIObject_Misc_ExecuteServerScript("myguiscript",local:listboxrow:listboxName)?

 

As you can see I'm trying to retrieve a local variable index with the selected row number.

Am I wrong?

Any of this going to be carried any farther? Can we populate a listbox? Can we populate a grid? Can we pull the local variables off a selected grid or listbox?

 

I am getting tired of hardcoding lists of UI Buttons and UIText to fake listboxes, and frustrated figuring out how to populate a UIGrid cell.

 

These posts indicate some cool stuff that was planned for 1.06 that may or may not have made it in, and the documentation, which was wonderful, sort of trickled off and stopped. So close yet so far!

Hi There,

 

I tried the new listbox parameter (listboxtext:mylb.mytext).

 

Her is the snippet of my screen xml:

<UIListBox name="MY_LISTBOX" x=26 y=139 width=272 height=251 yPadding=0 xPadding=0 showpartialchild=true
unequalcontrols=true scrollsegmentsize=30 hidescrollbarwhennotneeded=true >

<UIText name="TEST" text="This is a test" width=PARENT_WIDTH height=DYNAMIC align=left valign=top color="3d3131" fontfamily="NWN1_Dialog" style="bold" />

<UIButton name="SEND_DATA" text="Test" x=0 y=0 height=30 width=PARENT_WIDTH style="STYLE_SMALL_BUTTON" 
	OnLeftClick=UIObject_Misc_ExecuteServerScript("gui_xui_examine",listboxtext:MY_LISTBOX.TEST) >
</UIButton>				

<UIScrollBar name="SB" style="STYLE_SB_THIN"></UIScrollBar>	
</UIListBox>	

 

 

And this is the script:

void main(string sDescription)
{
ActionSpeakString(sDescription);
}	

 

 

I also tried the following syntax:

UIObject_Misc_ExecuteServerScript("gui_xui_examine",listboxtext:MY_LISTBOX)

 

 

Whatever syntax I try, the script is not getting the content of the text object in the listbox.

Anything wrong?

 

Kind Regards

XiDragon

Hi There,

 

I tried the new listbox parameter (listboxtext:mylb.mytext).

 

Her is the snippet of my screen xml:

<UIListBox name="MY_LISTBOX" x=26 y=139 width=272 height=251 yPadding=0 xPadding=0 showpartialchild=true
unequalcontrols=true scrollsegmentsize=30 hidescrollbarwhennotneeded=true >

<UIText name="TEST" text="This is a test" width=PARENT_WIDTH height=DYNAMIC align=left valign=top color="3d3131" fontfamily="NWN1_Dialog" style="bold" />

<UIButton name="SEND_DATA" text="Test" x=0 y=0 height=30 width=PARENT_WIDTH style="STYLE_SMALL_BUTTON" 
	OnLeftClick=UIObject_Misc_ExecuteServerScript("gui_xui_examine",listboxtext:MY_LISTBOX.TEST) >
</UIButton>				

<UIScrollBar name="SB" style="STYLE_SB_THIN"></UIScrollBar>	
</UIListBox>	

 

 

And this is the script:

void main(string sDescription)
{
ActionSpeakString(sDescription);
}	

 

 

I also tried the following syntax:

UIObject_Misc_ExecuteServerScript("gui_xui_examine",listboxtext:MY_LISTBOX)

 

 

Whatever syntax I try, the script is not getting the content of the text object in the listbox.

Anything wrong?

 

Kind Regards

XiDragon

 

Yes, you need to put the text element inside an UIPane element.

Thanks Caos81, but this does not fix the issue.

What you said is necessary to have objects like the button in the listbox not stretched, but it does not help with my problem.

 

 

@Rob McGinnis

I remember that I read somewhere on this website something from you like "Whatever questions you'll have, post them and I will try to help".

 

I would be glad if you would stand to your words and help me out.

 

 

Have Fun

XiDragon

Thanks Caos81, but this does not fix the issue.

What you said is necessary to have objects like the button in the listbox not stretched, but it does not help with my problem.

 

 

@Rob McGinnis

I remember that I read somewhere on this website something from you like "Whatever questions you'll have, post them and I will try to help".

 

I would be glad if you would stand to your words and help me out.

 

 

Have Fun

XiDragon

 

Well, as of right now, the listbox functions are incomplete. It is something we want to finish implementing, but it will not be before MoTB is released.

 

Well, as of right now, the listbox functions are incomplete. It is something we want to finish implementing, but it will not be before MoTB is released.

 

Hi Rob,

 

Thanks for letting me know.

 

I fiddled around for hours because I thought that I did something wrong. Therefore I would like to suggest to make it more clear in your News which functions are implemented and which not. It is not very motivating spending hours for nothing. I think that things like that can turn away modders and this is for sure not what you intend to do.

 

Have Fun

XiDragon

 

 

P.S. Because I am German and already made some bad experiences with Americans when it comes to criticism, seams that Germans and Americans handle this quite different, I want to assure you that I didn't mean to offend you with my criticism above.

P.S. Because I am German and already made some bad experiences with Americans when it comes to criticism, seams that Germans and Americans handle this quite different, I want to assure you that I didn't mean to offend you with my criticism above.

 

No worries. What I have seen is that non-native English speakers tend to be more to the point and, possibly, aren't aware of the nuances of some of the words in the language. Therefore their postings seem much more abrasive than intended. It would probably be much the same if I tried to do all my postings in German. The NWN2CR channel can tell you the horrors of that

I guess you are right.

 

I often realize that the most difficult things to translate are these regarding emotions or feelings, not at last because of the fine nuances. And because words about emotions and feelings do contain lots of explosiveness, especially in an environment like the internet where you communicate in only one dimension, one has to be very careful if he doesn't want to start flame wars.

 

Maybe I should put something in my signature like "BEWARE, I AM GERMAN".

I find that these parameters actually do work... as long as you put the "selectonleftclick=true" attribute on the UIListbox.