Quick scripting question

[Dachannien]

When does a control's onSourceUpdate event function get called? Does it only get called when one of that particular control's sources gets updated?

If so, is it possible to specify a string control as the source for a number control, or is there a way to hook the onSourceUpdate event for a different control?

[Dachannien]

I think I managed to answer my own question. The first answer is yes, only when a control's sources get updated. The second answer is that you can specify a string control as the source for a number control, but you should then also provide an onSourceUpdate event function so that the default arithmetic operations don't try to work on the string source.

[nezzir]

I think I managed to answer my own question. The first answer is yes, only when a control's sources get updated. The second answer is that you can specify a string control as the source for a number control, but you should then also provide an onSourceUpdate event function so that the default arithmetic operations don't try to work on the string source.

Yeah... I was gonna... say that.

[Dachannien]

Actually, I think I was wrong. There is no onSourceUpdate event function. The d20 default ruleset implements a function called onSourceUpdate for the linkednumber template class, but this function gets called as a result of being assigned (in a roundabout way) to the onUpdate handler.

When using a linkednumber as the template for a control, however, what I said above actually does apply.