How do I get dumb text in a charsheet subwindow that can be turned off and on?

[SilentRuin]

I thought first I could just use something like:



<windowclass name="charsheet" merge="join">
...
<sheetdata>
<subwindow name="sub_mystuff">
...
<class>char_mystuff</class>
<activate />
<fastinit />
<invisible />
<disabled />
</subwindow>
</sheetdata>
</windowclass>

<windowclass name="char_mystuff" >
...
<sheetdata>
<label_charframetop name="theAstuff">
...
<static textres="my_text_A" />
<invisible />
</label_charframetop>
<label_charframetop name="theBstuff">
...
<static textres="my_text_B" />
<invisible />
</label_charframetop>
<label_charframetop name="theCstuff">
...
<static textres="my_text_C" />
<invisible />
</label_charframetop>

...
</sheetdata>
</windowclass>



and then turn them on and off at various times with



window.theAstuff.setVisible(true);
.etc


At this point I figured this failed because they are not a control or something. So tried to wrap them in genericcontrol(s) but no luck there either.

So my question is - in a sub window full of controls - how do I place and control DUMB text? It seems to be there. But it is never ever displayed. Unless I'm not in the sub window - then labels work fine.

What do you do here?

[Ampersandrew]

What size is it? how have you positioned it in the window?

[SilentRuin]

What size is it? how have you positioned it in the window?

I defined no width or height in the label - just an anchor point off another control. This EXACT subwindow above applied to the NPC sheet works for the label. Applied to the charsheet it does not.

[SilentRuin]

Guess I'll have to trial and error on my own to figure this out.

[Ampersandrew]

I defined no width or height in the label - just an anchor point off another control. This EXACT subwindow above applied to the NPC sheet works for the label. Applied to the charsheet it does not.

Try defining a width and see if it shows up.

[SilentRuin]

Try defining a width and see if it shows up.

I don't know what I was doing wrong - but starting from scratch on these labels and everything is now working. My own stupidity at doing something bizarre I guess - then when starting at it fresh - worked. Not sure what I was doing wrong first time but I'm betting you were right and it had something to do with not giving height and width. Lesson learned, labels get a height and width always from now on.