Icon aliases

[phantomwhale]

Is these anyway to have aliases for icons ? Such as:

<icon name="button_openlink" file="graphics/buttons/button_openwindow.png"/>
<icon name="button_openwindow" alias="button_openlink" />

As I look at moving SavageWorlds onto CoreRPG, it occurs to me that I can do some nice tricks with templates to keep old extension code working, and some clever data migrations to keep old DB structures working, but there is a definite break point when icon name change. And to ensure SavageWorlds isn't overriding almost every window asset, I WILL need to change quite a few icons names.

This is most likely an FG wishlist request, but wanted to ask here in case anyone has any ideas around this ?

Regards,
Ben

[Moon Wizard]

There's nothing in FG currently that does that.

Could you just redefine the icons with the older icon names and using the newer files?

JPG

[Ikael]

I second this feature. Actually this would be extremely helpful for windowclasses as well, ie. <windowclass name="mundaneitem" alias="item"/> especially in doing migration work from old ruleset -> CoreRPG layered.
I have been doing SW 3.5 migration to CoreRPG and most annoying compatibility issues are the different windowclass names:



SW windowclass storylist ---> CoreRPG name: encounterlist
SW windowclass combatlist ---> CoreRPG name: battlelist
SWwindowclass mundaneitem ---> CoreRPG name: item
SWwindowclass modifierlist ---> CoreRPG name: modifiers
SWwindowclass modifier ---> CoreRPG name: modifiersmall
SW windowclass effect ---> CoreRPG name: effectsmall


Now all these windowclasses could be replaced with CoreRPG and actually utilize the layering feature, BUT without which alias/ref feature I have to copy-paste full CoreRPG's windowclass codes to SW. It would be much more super approach to utilize CoreRPG implementation with simple windowclass alias.

The same applies to graphics. I have had to define several framedefs multiple times with different names to make them override CoreRPG ones. Ackward again, but doable, thou alias approach would be pure gold.

[sciencephile]

If there are features you want added, add it to the FG Wish List (link in Moon Wizard's signature).

[Ikael]

Feature request is now created: https://fg2app.idea.informer.com/proj/?ia=82564
with insignificant vote of mine :D