Dragging and linking a field without making a link graphic on it...

[Oberoten]

Current thought is to let the drag contain custom-data. Specificaly a number telling which part of the matrix was dropped. Then when the onMatrixUpdate triggers it goes in a loop over all the entries and uses a case to drop the proper value. Should be fairly fast at the least.

- Obe

[Moon Wizard]

I would probably just use a custom drag type; and pass the value you need for the technique/form field. Easier to handle the drag field set. But, that’s just details that can be handled different ways. I think you’re on right track now.

Regards,
JPG

[Oberoten]

That seems to be what does the trick best for me. Far easier to push change down-stream than pulling it from upstream.
Many thanks for the help.

- Obe

[Oberoten]

I spoke to soon it seems. I have been wrestling with how to find the windowlist (named spelllist) so I can then go over it with a for k,v in ipairs( "The heck do I put here") and find the v.getChild("forms") and set it to the combined name and v.getChild("castingtotal").setValue() to the matrix-value.

... I am frustrated by my inability to do this to say the least. It has been some ages since I had to do it last and I can not for the life of me figure it out.

- Obe

[Moon Wizard]

I would probably do something like this from the windowclass level script for the character spell tab window:

function onMatrixChanged()
    for _,w in ipairs(spelllist.getWindows()) do
        w.updateSpellCastTotal();
    end
end

And something like this from the windowclass level script for the individual spells:

function updateSpellCastTotal()
    local nNewCastingTotal = <Calculation>;
    catingtotal.setValue(nNewCastingTotal);
end

In Lua, the pairs() construct will allow you to iterate over all key/value pairs in a table, but order is not guaranteed. The ipairs() construct will allow you to iterate (in order) over key/value pairs with numeric keys that start at 1; but will ignore non-numeric keys and will stop at any gaps. (i.e. if table has keys of 1, 2 and 4; then only 1 and 2 will be iterated over.)

The windowlist.getWindows() API returns a table with numeric keys pointing to each window instance.

Regards,
JPG

[Oberoten]

Made a clunky proof of concept that now updates any spell using the forms of "CreoAnimal" on the character-sheet.

function onValueChanged()
                        local a = getValue();
                        b = getName();
                            
                            for _,w in ipairs(window.spelllist.getWindows()) do
                                local d = w.name.getValue() .. " form : " .. w.forms.getValue() .. "  " .. w.castingtotal.getValue();
                                local form = w.forms.getValue();
                                 if form == b then
                                    w.castingtotal.setValue(a);
                                 end
                                print(d);
                            end
                    end

Many thanks for all the help Jpg. It has been valuable to save my sanity. (Such as sanity is for a beholder to begin with)

/Obe

[Moon Wizard]

I'd probably simply a bit:

In individual matrix field scripts:

function onValueChanged()
    window.onMatrixChanged(getName(), getValue());
end

In spell tab window script:

function onMatrixChanged(sForm, nValue)
    for _,w in ipairs(spelllist.getWindows()) do
        if w.forms.getValue() == sForm then
            w.castingtotal.setValue(nValue);
        end
    end
end

Cheers,
JPG