How to activate multiple CT Sections when an actor becomes Active

I'm trying to activate/visible multiple CT_Sections when the combat tracker switches to the active CT Actor.

I know you can declare a button in your ct_host_entry.xml as <button_ct_section_active> and pair it with a <sub_ct_section> and this will work. My problem is I want to activate 2 sections on the Actors turn.

I've tried creating a DB.addHandler to my ct_entry.lua trigger:

Code:

---

-- ct_entry.lua

function onInit()
  super.onInit();

  -- unrelated stuff deleted

  DB.addHandler(DB.getPath(getDatabaseNode(), "active"), "onUpdate", self.onUpdateActive);
end

function onUpdateActive(nodeField)
  local bState = (nodeField.getValue() == 1);

  sub_stats.setVisible(bState);
  sub_combat.setVisible(bState);
end

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Likewise with overriding onActiveChanged in my ct_entry.lua and trying each of the commented methods:

Code:

---

-- ct_entry.lua

function onActiveChanged()
  Debug.chat("ct_entry.lua -- onActiveChanged");
  local bState = (DB.getValue(getDatabaseNode(), "active", 0) == 1);
  Debug.chat(bState);

--  self.onSectionChanged("stats");
--  self.onSectionChanged("combat");

--  super.onSectionChanged("stats");
--  super.onSectionChanged("combat");

--  sub_stats.setVisible(bState);
--  sub_combat.setVisible(bState);
end

---

I've messed around with all sorts of stuff, without success. I need some guidance here. Help!

You'll need to update ct_entry.lua to override a couple functions:

Code:

---

function onActiveChanged()
        self.onSectionChanged("stats");
        self.onSectionChanged("combat");
end
function getSectionToggle(sKey)
        local bResult = false;

        local sButtonName = "button_section_" .. sKey;
        local cButton = self[sButtonName];
        if cButton then
                bResult = (cButton.getValue() == 1);
                if ((sKey == "stats") or (sKey == "combat")) and self.isActive() and not self.isPC() then
                        bResult = true;
                end
        end

        return bResult;
end

---

Regards,
JPG

Thanks! That did it.

For future proofing would there be a need to implement some consideration for the parent functions? ie super.onActiveChanged()

Not in this case; because you want to override the default behavior completely.

JPG