Reload Items

[Xarxus]

Hello everybody. There is a way to force a reload of objects in a window. I'll explain,
I would like the Item window to perform reload the Items list at a certain time.

[mccartysr]

In general, it is possible to force windows to reload.

[Xarxus]

Yep, but how?

[mccartysr]

Well that depends on what you want to trigger the reload

[Xarxus]

Ok, it is the case that I explain better and tell you what I did and what I want to achieve.

So in my data_library I have defined more management classes for the Items and I have defined a function that associates the right class to the itemtype field of each object.

To try it out, I manually created a couple of Items in the campaign DB. The Item window shows them well and when I try to open them everything works fine. The problem is that I created them by hand, so I need a system that allows me to create the Item I want. The idea that came to my mind was to create a default class for Items. This class is used to open objects that do not have the itemtype field set. This class contains a field named itemtype (associated with a combobox) that allows me to select the item type of the object.

It almost works well. When I create a new item I can choose the item name and I can select the itemtype. On the campaign DB everything is written well.

The problem is that the generic Item window has already associated a class to the Item and does not recognize this variation until I restart the session. If I try to open the Item without restarting it always opens it with the default class.

A little bit of code:

["item"] = {
bExport = true,
bID = true,
aDataMap = { "itemdescription", "reference.itemdata.itemdrescription" },
aRecordDisplayClasses = {"reference_item_weapon", "reference_item_armor", "reference_item_choice"},
fRecordDisplayClass = getItemRecordDisplayClass,
-- sRecordDisplayClass = "item",
},


function getItemRecordDisplayClass(vNode)
local sRecordDisplayClass = "reference_item_choice";
if vNode ~= nil and vNode.getChild("itemtype") then
local itemType = vNode.getChild("itemtype").getValue()

if itemType == "Weapon" then
sRecordDisplayClass = "reference_item_weapon";
elseif itemType == "Armor" then
sRecordDisplayClass = "reference_item_armor";
end
end

return sRecordDisplayClass;
end

[Moon Wizard]

All of the D&D rulesets have a Type field that changes the fields available in the item record window based on the value of the Type field. I would look at any of the D&D rulesets for that (5E, 3.5E, etc.)

Regards,
JPG

[Xarxus]

Yep, I see. It uses subwindows.
Great hint, ty!