Question relating to widgets.

[drahkar]

Is it possible to setup widgets so that you can type a character in it and have that character be usable?

For example. If I make a widget on a core stat, and wanted to manually type a modifier number into it, can we do that? Or does it have to be marked in the process of generating the widget?

Thanks for the help in advance!

[Bidmaron]

That could be done by overloading the intrinsic widget onClick at the very least. By looking at the code others have done to support 'zooming' a control to adjust its numeric value, you should be able to get a basic idea of how to go about it. I would be surprised if someone hasn't already written code to do exactly what you are proposing....

[drahkar]

There weren't very many posts detailing the use of Widgets which is, of course, why I was asking in the first place. I was hoping someone would have quick answer that prevent me from having to spend a lot of time researching and testing.

As to what I've found, unfortunately widgets are not like windowclasses. They don't have onClick functions and the like. They have a very limited scope of functionality and do not inherit any of the windowclass context because they are a widgetcontainer functions, not a windowinstance context.

[Bidmaron]

Sorry to have misled you. I think the only option is to handle the interface in the parent control. The d20_jpg character sheet makes extensive use of widgets (and I assume 4e, but I don't use that), so you might check there to see how Moon_wiz handled his interactions.

[drahkar]

I know on the systems in the past they involved a lot of dragging of numbers to the score to create the widget. I was just hoping to avoid that. What i might do is create some dialog code that I can use to create a entry field of some sort. I'll have to play with it and find out what it will accept.