Locking tokens into a "tokenfield"

[Visvalor]

OK! I emailed someone about this earlier but call me impatient I'm eager to learn ;P

Anyways I was looking through the combat tracker trying to figure out how they locked the token in place as I want to do something like that on my sheet with tokens + variables attached. First thing first to prepare for said code I'd imagine would be make a spot for it and make a control to lock the tokens in place.

I found <tokenfield> but I can't find where it is defined in either charsheet_templates or common_templates and when I just copy a tokenfield into my sheet it doesn't do anything with tokens.

Where do I look (or what is) the script to take a token that is dragged to a control and then lock it in place so it doesn't move.

Also instead of making a copy I need to make sure this token is removed when it is removed =P

Also need variables to go with it!

But first. How do I get it to stay in place?

Thanks!

[Moon Wizard]

Can you explain what you mean by "locked in place"?

The tokencontrol and tokenfield controls are places where a token can be dropped onto, and dragged from. If it's a tokenfield control, then the token information will also be saved in the database. They are merely data fields, just like stringfields or numberfields, just for tokens.

Regards,
JPG

[Visvalor]

Tokencontrol I didn't try I didn't find "token" inside either template files so I didn't know I had it :P

Tokenfield when I tried to drag a token into it wouldn't grab the token it just disappears.

I'll try Token conrol later today when I get back from the doctor XD

What I need is a control to put in something that will grab a token, hold it's data and then release it (not let it be copied and dragged somewhere else) when someone grabs it :P

[Visvalor]

Ok!

<tokenfield name="token">
<bounds>35,35,23,23</bounds>
<empty>indicator_emptytoken</empty>
</tokenfield>


<tokencontrol name="token">
<bounds>35,35,23,23</bounds>
</tokencontrol>

I've put both of them in the window I want it in and seem to work together, they grab a token, now when I grab the token to take it out how do I get it to delete :P?

So far it just stays in there and copies >_<!

[Moon Wizard]

The documentation is not clear on how to erase a tokencontrol or tokenfield.
https://fantasygrounds.com/refdoc/tokencontrol.xcp

I would try using setPrototype(""). If not, the only other way that I can think of trying is getDatabaseNode().delete(), which would only work for tokenfield.

Cheers,
JPG

[phantomwhale]

Raising this thread from the dead...


The documentation is not clear on how to erase a tokencontrol or tokenfield.
https://fantasygrounds.com/refdoc/tokencontrol.xcp

It sure isn't, which is what brings me here today !


I would try using setPrototype(""). If not, the only other way that I can think of trying is getDatabaseNode().delete(), which would only work for tokenfield.


Tried deleting the database node - it got mad. It didn't respond immediately or reliably, and within a few seconds I kept getting a fatal application error about dbgeng.dll being missing - which is a debugging DLL, to the best of my "I don't really develop windows stuff" knowledge.

setPrototype("") seems to work though.

[Moon Wizard]

From a quick review of the code (now that I have access), it looks like SetPrototype("") is the correct way to clear a tokencontrol/tokenfield.

Cheers,
JPG