What does a self-referential "source=" imply?

[Varsuuk]

I have seen this in a few places as I work on a MoreCore ext:



<!-- Frame Anchor point and Label -->
<string_useredit_bold name="combat_label" source="combat_label">
<anchored to="combatframe" />
<default>Combat</default>
<tooltip textres="label_editable_stats" />
</string_useredit_bold>


The stringfield instance is named "combat_label" and it says the data comes from "combat_label" - I thought you used source to indicate if it comes from somewhere OTHER than the same name in the XML? Is this just not needed or is it saying something that I am missing?

[celestian]

I have seen this in a few places as I work on a MoreCore ext:



<!-- Frame Anchor point and Label -->
<string_useredit_bold name="combat_label" source="combat_label">
<anchored to="combatframe" />
<default>Combat</default>
<tooltip textres="label_editable_stats" />
</string_useredit_bold>


The stringfield instance is named "combat_label" and it says the data comes from "combat_label" - I thought you used source to indicate if it comes from somewhere OTHER than the same name in the XML? Is this just not needed or is it saying something that I am missing?

Thats my general understanding. If you wanted to reference some other part of the db node then you would use source. I'm not sure what the above accomplishes.

[damned]

You are both correct.

[Varsuuk]

Welp, I got bit lol cos I wasn't thinking right when was the error saying "aac" is nil

(paraphrased)


I was setting in onInit() some controls to make them disabled/invis. Called aac.armour.setEnabled(false) ... got the error. Yet, it MUST be in scope... aac_label (another control) worked!

Then finally realized ... name="aac.armour" source="aac.armour" issue. I didn't catch on right away since after reading this, I removed all the redundant "source="s so when saw name="aac.armour" it didn't stand out as much.

changing it to: <xxxx name="aac_armour" source="aac.armour"> ... took care of it ;) and of course aac_armour.setEnabled(false) did what I wanted.


The POINT of source is to let you refer to nested stuff like that and name it without the "." ;) ooops


Just a tip, if you are using controls from MoreCore with a "." in name that you will not be able to reference them in the way >I< tried - more experienced folks can tell us if there is another way to reference a dotted name where it works correctly.

[Varsuuk]

Actually - my mistake, these were new fields added in Old_School_Essentials_MoreCore. Will alert him there.