Windowlist columns... can someone explain the use?

[celestian]

I'm trying to figure out what the column/width/fill down/width is suppose to do but not really finding it useful.

What I expected was I could say "fill this width with an entry and then make a new column (window) and add the next".

So if I said width of 3 then it would do this.

[Longsword] [Dagger] [Bow]
[Dart]

(4 database objects. sword, dagger, bow and dart)

But either im doing something wrong or completely misunderstanding the use of it.

https://www.fantasygrounds.com/refdoc/windowlist.xcp



The XML bits say "pixels" for width.... but setColumnWidth doesn't mention pixels so I was thinking it was columns, literal.

Am I barking up the wrong tree entirely and have to code the controls manually or will it actually generate a type of windowlist like the example I used? I've tried various options and none of them seem to result in anything useful.

[celestian]

So, I tried one last thing and this seems to get the effect I wanted.

  setColumnWidth(130);

[LordEntrails]

Severed limbs was the effect you wanted?

Brutal dude! Or should I say Vorpal?

[celestian]

I managed to get it cleaned up a bit and working. Was just a bit confused on the documentation.

Looks pretty decent and it expands as the window changes.



The only part that I don't like is the overlapping shading (marked in red) which I couldn't seem to resolve with margin controls for the entries.

[celestian]

Severed limbs was the effect you wanted?

Brutal dude! Or should I say Vorpal?

Trolls are easy to chop up! I guess they lost that in 5e?

[Moon Wizard]

My guess is that the overlapping shading is due to the column width not being wide enough for how the windows are defined. (i.e. windows are defined in a way that makes them wider than 130.) There's no auto-sizing of columns, just pixel-based specification.

Regards,
JPG

[celestian]

My guess is that the overlapping shading is due to the column width not being wide enough for how the windows are defined. (i.e. windows are defined in a way that makes them wider than 130.) There's no auto-sizing of columns, just pixel-based specification.

Regards,
JPG

My suspicion is that it's the <child><backcolor>1A40301E</backcolor></child> sets a frame within the windowlist. The current definition of the windowlist and it's class are:

      <windowlist name="mini_combat_window">
        <anchored>
          <top parent="columnanchor" anchor="bottom" relation="relative" offset="7" />
          <left offset="10" />
          <right offset="-5" />
        </anchored>
        <child></child>
        <child><backcolor>1A40301E</backcolor></child>
        <noscroll />
        <columns><width>130</width></columns>
        <datasource>.abilitynoteslist</datasource>
        <class>cta_abilitynotes_host</class>
        <sortby><control>name</control></sortby>
        <noscroll />
        <frame name="ct_subgroupbox" offset="4,5,1,1" />
      </windowlist>

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  <windowclass name="cta_abilitynotes_host">
    <sheetdata>
      <stringfield name="name">
      <script>
        function onInit()
          local node = window.getDatabaseNode();
          local sText = DB.getValue(node,"text","");
          local sCleaned = UtilityManagerADND.stripFormattedText(sText);
          setTooltipText(sCleaned);
        end
        function onHover(oncontrol)
          if oncontrol then
            setColor("ffffff");
          else
            setColor(nil);
          end
        end
        function onClickDown(button, x, y)
          local w = Interface.openWindow('quicknote',window.getDatabaseNode());
          if w then
            return true;
          end          
        end
      </script>
        <anchored>
          <top anchor="top" offset="2" />
          <left anchor="left" offset="4"/>
        </anchored>
        <multilinespacing>20</multilinespacing>
        <readonly /> 
      </stringfield>
      
    </sheetdata>
  </windowclass>

I tried tweaking the margins on the class entry trying to clean it up but it didn't seem to help.

[Moon Wizard]

Background colors are independent of frames; and are actually drawn under frames. Try adding a fixed width of 120 to your name field to see if that helps.

Regards,
JPG

[celestian]

Background colors are independent of frames; and are actually drawn under frames. Try adding a fixed width of 120 to your name field to see if that helps.

Regards,
JPG

That got it, perfect.



I tend to not use static width when I can, didn't think to try, thanks!