Subwindow to Subwindow

[Xarxus]

Starting from a subwindow, I need to get access to a control in another subwindow.
If I'm not wrong, there was an utility function already prepared to do this job, but I can't find it.
Who can help me?

[Trenloe]

According to the developer guide for the subwindow control, "a reference to the parent subwindow control is available from the contained windowinstance object through the parentcontrol variable." https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FGCP/pages/996645196/subwindow

Not knowing your exact GUI control hierarchy, you could try something like parentcontrol.window.{name of other subwindow}.subwindow to access another subwindow from within a different subwindow. If this doesn't work, you can usually work out the path needed by use of Debug statements for parentcontrol.window and other variations on that GUI path.

[Trenloe]

If I'm not wrong, there was an utility function already prepared to do this job, but I can't find it.
Search for parentcontrol in the CoreRPG manager_utility.lua file for some functions related to this. getTopWindow(w) returns the top window, if w is a subwindow then it just uses parentcontrol.window to get to the top level window.

[Xarxus]

Yep, I was using this --> parentcontrol.window.{name of other subwindow}.subwindow, but when I try to reach a control inside it seems to not work.
I think I should get to the windowinstance first, is that right?

getTopWindow(w) is the same, it gives the subwindow.

I tried this



_wMyWindow = parentcontrol.window["myWindow"].subwindow;

Debug.console(_wMyWindow); -- The output is --> subwindow = { name = "myWindow", x,y,w,h = 30,45,600,635 }

_wMyWindow["myControlName"].getValue(); -- It doesn't work
_wMyWindow.myControlName.getValue(); -- It doesn't work


What I'm doing wrong?

[Trenloe]

Write debug for the controls you're trying to access. Output _wMyWindow.myControlName to debug, for example.

Also, ensure that the subwindow and its contents has been fully created when you're trying to access it via code. You may need to specify <activate /> in the subwindow definition: https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/FGCP/pages/996645196/subwindow

[Xarxus]

Gotcha! Solved --> fastinit is the way

Ty Trenloe