Can't anchor to bottom of window... makes creating scrollbar impossible.

[celestian]

So, ignore the scroll issue mentioned above, all sorted. Turns out the previous options I needed (maintaining the contentframe bottom anchor) was unnecessary for a non-windowlist.

Everything seems to be working!

I'll clean up the code and post the important bits incase anyone is interested after a bit.

[Moon Wizard]

And celestian solved it before I made it back from lunch.

JPG

[Bidmaron]

Congrats, Celestian. Will probably come in handy

[celestian]

So here is the parts of the code that matter here.

This is the xml for the window. I tried not to template anything so folks could more easily see what was going on but there are bits like tabs/etc that are but those are "standard" of sorts.

 <!-- main selected window, actions/saves/etc, right side with all the fun stuff -->
  <windowclass name="cta_main_selected_host">
    <!-- <frame name="field-red" /> -->
    
    <script file="cta/scripts/cta_selected.lua" />
    <sheetdata>
    
      <subwindow name="header">
        <anchored>
          <top offset="35" />
          <left offset="13" />
          <right offset="-10" />
        </anchored>
        <activate />
        <fastinit />
        <noscroll />
        <class>selected_entry_header</class>
        <frame name="headergray" offset="5,5,5,5" />
      </subwindow>

      <genericcontrol name="contentframe">
        <anchored>
          <top parent="header" anchor="bottom" offset="0" />
          <left offset="0" />
          <bottom parent="" anchor="bottom" offset="0" />
        </anchored>
        <disabled />
        <!-- <frame name="groupbox" offset="0,0,0,0" /> -->
      </genericcontrol>      

      <genericcontrol name="contentanchor">
        <anchored height="0">
          <top parent="header" anchor="bottom" offset="0" relation="relative"/>
          <left parent="" anchor="left" offset="0" />
          <right parent="" anchor="right" offset="0" />
        </anchored>
        <disabled />
        <!-- <frame name="field-yellow" /> -->
      </genericcontrol>

      <subwindow name="actions">
        <!-- <frame name="field-green" /> -->
        <anchored to="contentanchor" >
          <top anchor="top" offset="5" />
          <left parent="" anchor="left" offset="5"/>
          <right parent="" anchor="right" offset="-20"/>
          <bottom parent="contentframe" anchor="bottom" offset="-5"/>
        </anchored>
        <activate />
        <fastinit />
        <class>cta_actions_host</class>
      </subwindow>
      <cta_selected_scrollbar>
        <anchored to="actions" />
        <target>actions</target>
      </cta_selected_scrollbar>


      <subwindow name="effects">
        <!-- <frame name="field-green" /> -->
        <anchored to="contentanchor" >
          <top anchor="top" offset="5" />
          <left parent="" anchor="left" offset="5"/>
          <right parent="" anchor="right" offset="-20"/>
          <bottom parent="contentframe" anchor="bottom" offset="-5"/>
        </anchored>
        <activate />
        <fastinit />
        <class>cta_effects_host</class>
      </subwindow>
      <cta_selected_scrollbar>
        <anchored to="effects" />
        <target>effects</target>
      </cta_selected_scrollbar>
      
      <subwindow name="skills">
        <!-- <frame name="field-green" /> -->
        <anchored to="contentanchor" >
          <top anchor="top" offset="5" />
          <left parent="" anchor="left" offset="5"/>
          <right parent="" anchor="right" offset="-20"/>
          <bottom parent="contentframe" anchor="bottom" offset="-5"/>
        </anchored>
        <activate />
        <fastinit />
        <class>cta_skills_host</class>
      </subwindow>
      <cta_selected_scrollbar>
        <anchored to="skills" />
        <target>skills</target>
      </cta_selected_scrollbar>
      
     <subwindow name="stats">
        <!-- <frame name="field-blue" /> -->
        <anchored to="contentanchor" >
          <top anchor="top" offset="5" />
          <left parent="" anchor="left" offset="5"/>
          <right parent="" anchor="right" offset="-20"/>
          <bottom parent="contentframe" anchor="bottom" offset="-5"/>
        </anchored>
        <class>cta_stats_host</class>
        <activate />
        <fastinit />
      </subwindow> 
      <cta_selected_scrollbar>
        <anchored to="stats" />
        <target>stats</target>
      </cta_selected_scrollbar>
      
      <tabs_cta name="tabs_cta">
        <tab>
          <icon>htab_actions_icon</icon>
          <subwindow>actions</subwindow>
        </tab>
        <tab>
          <icon>htab_effects_icon</icon>
          <subwindow>effects</subwindow>
        </tab>
        <tab>
          <icon>htab_stats_icon</icon>
          <subwindow>stats</subwindow>
        </tab>
        <tab>
          <icon>htab_skills_icon</icon>
          <subwindow>skills</subwindow>
        </tab>
      </tabs_cta>

    </sheetdata>
  </windowclass>

Once I stopped using the windowlist it made things a lot easier. I could set the contentframe to the bottom of parent="" and that solved all the issues. When it was in a windowlist I had to watch for window resizing and manually set it.

I did also have to create a horizontal tab system. I took the existing vertical one and tweaked it to support horizontal. If/when I get the chance I'm going to see if I can merge them and you just set a flag within the xml to determine which one to use.

[Moon Wizard]

Let me know when you do this, and I can merge into CoreRPG.

Regards,
JPG