Window/Parentcontrol/Subwindow navigation (up/down)

[celestian]

So, I'm trying to navigate from down in a subwindow, up then back down into another to get a value set for a "edit" button.

Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window' | windowinstance = { class = combat_mini_section, node = combattracker.list.id-00002, x,y,w,h = 640,254,389,140 }
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.getName' | s'mini_combat_window'
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window' | windowinstance = { class = charsheet_combat, node = combattracker.list.id-00002, x,y,w,h = 610,199,469,515 }
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window.weapons' | subwindow = { x,y,w,h = 15,197,442,308 }
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.subwindow' | nil
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.actions_iedit' | nil
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window.subwindow' | nil
Runtime Notice: s'list_abilitynotes' | s'window.parentcontrol.window.abilitynotes_iadd' | buttoncontrol = { x,y,w,h = 414,35,0,0 }

As you can see "window" is combat_mini_section, the one I want to backup some so I try "window.parentcontrol" which is mini_combat_window which then I get "window.parentcontrol.window" which is at the level I want to be at (charsheet_combat). From that point I can now go back down.

charsheet_combat contains the subwindow "weapons" which you can see returns "subwindow" in the debug output... so I expect window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.subwindow to work... but it doesn't as you can see from the "nil" result.

I need to get the value from *.weapons.subwindow.actions_iedit.getValue().

I did a test to see if I could access another variable within charsheet_combat (abilitynotes_iadd) and I could access that item (last thing listed in debug) so it's within the same scope but I'm stumped why *.weapons.subwindow doesn't work as I'd expect it.

Here is the charsheet_combat clipped section.

	<windowclass name="charsheet_combat">
		<sheetdata>
      <anchor_title_charsheet name="contentanchor" />

      <!-- mini combat window -->
			<label_charframetop name="minicombattitle">
				<anchored height="20">
					<top offset="35" />
					<left offset="30" />
          <right offset="-50" />
				</anchored>
				<icons>char_abilities</icons>
				<static textres="char_label_combat" />
			</label_charframetop>
			<button_iadd_abilitynotes name="abilitynotes_iadd">
        <anchored to="minicombattitle" position="insidetopright" offset="5,0" />
				<target>abilitynotes</target>
			</button_iadd_abilitynotes>
			<subwindow name="mini_combat_window">
        <anchored to="minicombattitle">
					<top anchor="bottom" />
					<left />
          <right />
				</anchored>
        <class>combat_mini_section</class>
				<activate />
				<fastinit />
			</subwindow>
    <!-- END mini combat window -->
    
      <sub_sheet_actions name="weapons">
        <anchored to="contentanchor">
          <top parent="mini_combat_window" anchor="bottom" offset="2" />
          <left />
          <right parent="" offset="-12,0" />
          <bottom parent="" offset="-10" />
        </anchored>
	<class>charsheet_actions_weapons</class>
      </sub_sheet_actions>

And here is a clipped section of the charsheet_actions_weapons which contains the button/result I'm looking for.

	<windowclass name="charsheet_actions_weapons">
    <margins control="0,0,15,7" />
		<script>
			function onDrop(x, y, draginfo)
				if contents.subwindow.weapons.onDrop(x, y, draginfo) then
					return true;
				end
				return false;
			end
		</script>
		<sheetdata>
			<button_iedit name="actions_iedit">
				<anchored position="insidebottomright" offset="10,10" />
				<tooltip textres="char_tooltip_actionedit" />
				<script>
					function onValueChanged()
						local bEditMode = (getValue() == 1);
						
						window.weapons_iadd.setVisible(bEditMode);
            window.parentcontrol.window.abilitynotes_iadd.setVisible(bEditMode);
            
						if bEditMode then
							DB.setValue(window.getDatabaseNode(), "powermode", "string", "standard");
							DB.setValue(window.getDatabaseNode(), "powerdisplaymode", "string", "");
						end

						window.contents.subwindow.weapons.update();
            window.parentcontrol.window.mini_combat_window.subwindow.abilitynotes.update(bEditMode)
					end
				</script>
			</button_iedit>

What I am trying to do is get the "value" of the button to determine if the button is indeed in edit mode is a rather roundabout way but right now that's only I can for now.

I'm going to keep poking at this but I've exhausted my theories on how to get down to the value.

[celestian]

Okay, so ignore me.... it works. Apparently at the point my code was running it didn't exist yet.. /slap.

I ran the button edit toggle and sure enough *.weapons.subwindow.actions_iedit exited.

Sometimes you got to ignore your gut feeling and start all over from scratch.

edit, if anyone cares here is the hoops I did to get to the right values.

      function update(bEdit)
        if bEdit == nil then 
          if (window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.subwindow and window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.subwindow.actions_iedit) then
            bEdit = (window.parentcontrol.window.weapons.subwindow.actions_iedit.getValue() == 1);
          elseif (window.parentcontrol.window.parentcontrol.window.actions_iedit) then
            bEdit = (window.parentcontrol.window.parentcontrol.window.actions_iedit.getValue() == 1);
          end
        end
        for _,w in ipairs(getWindows()) do
          w.idelete.setVisibility(bEdit);
        end
      end

It's just checking to see if the items listed should be marked for "edit" mode. I use this code in two places thus the need to check the pathing and see where I am at ... at that moment. (CT versus N/PC sheet).

[Ken L]

There's the <fastinit/> I think for subwindows. Worth a look at.

[celestian]

There's the <fastinit/> I think for subwindows. Worth a look at.

I'll give that a shot tho I've got it working now. I thought I was doing that for the subwindows but it looks like I wasn't for weapons... that might have cleared up my *.weapons.subwindow nil issue from the git-go.