How to activate multiple CT Sections when an actor becomes Active

[ronnke]

I'm trying to activate/visible multiple CT_Sections when the combat tracker switches to the active CT Actor.

I know you can declare a button in your ct_host_entry.xml as <button_ct_section_active> and pair it with a <sub_ct_section> and this will work. My problem is I want to activate 2 sections on the Actors turn.

I've tried creating a DB.addHandler to my ct_entry.lua trigger:

-- ct_entry.lua

function onInit()
   super.onInit();

   -- unrelated stuff deleted

   DB.addHandler(DB.getPath(getDatabaseNode(), "active"), "onUpdate", self.onUpdateActive);
end

function onUpdateActive(nodeField)
   local bState = (nodeField.getValue() == 1);

   sub_stats.setVisible(bState);
   sub_combat.setVisible(bState);
end

Likewise with overriding onActiveChanged in my ct_entry.lua and trying each of the commented methods:

-- ct_entry.lua

function onActiveChanged()
   Debug.chat("ct_entry.lua -- onActiveChanged");
   local bState = (DB.getValue(getDatabaseNode(), "active", 0) == 1);
   Debug.chat(bState);

--   self.onSectionChanged("stats");
--   self.onSectionChanged("combat");

--   super.onSectionChanged("stats");
--   super.onSectionChanged("combat");

--   sub_stats.setVisible(bState);
--   sub_combat.setVisible(bState);
end

I've messed around with all sorts of stuff, without success. I need some guidance here. Help!

[Moon Wizard]

You'll need to update ct_entry.lua to override a couple functions:

function onActiveChanged()
	self.onSectionChanged("stats");
	self.onSectionChanged("combat");
end
function getSectionToggle(sKey)
	local bResult = false;

	local sButtonName = "button_section_" .. sKey;
	local cButton = self[sButtonName];
	if cButton then
		bResult = (cButton.getValue() == 1);
		if ((sKey == "stats") or (sKey == "combat")) and self.isActive() and not self.isPC() then
			bResult = true;
		end
	end

	return bResult;
end

Regards,
JPG

[ronnke]

Thanks! That did it.

[ronnke]

For future proofing would there be a need to implement some consideration for the parent functions? ie super.onActiveChanged()

[Moon Wizard]

Not in this case; because you want to override the default behavior completely.

JPG