findWindow() syntax to find a panel?

[Toadwart]

Trying to figure out how to to locate the windowinstance for a panel using the Interface.findWindow function.

Have a panel like so:

 
  <panel name="shortcuts" modes="host">
    <class>shortcuts_dm</class>
    <bounds>
      <anchored>
        <left>
          <anchor>left</anchor>
          <offset>370</offset>
        </left>
        <top>
          <anchor>top</anchor>
          <offset>90</offset>
        </top>
        <bottom>
          <anchor>bottom</anchor>
          <offset>30</offset>
        </bottom>
        <size>
          <width>67</width>
        </size>
      </anchored>
    </bounds>
  </panel>

with class definition:

 
  <windowclass name="shortcuts_dm">
    <sizelimits>
      <maximum>
        <height>1000</height>
      </maximum>
    </sizelimits>
    <sheetdata>
      <windowreferencecontrol>
        <icon>
          <normal>DesktopIconCharacters</normal>
          <pressed>DesktopIconCharactersDown</pressed>
        </icon>
        <bounds>20,0,47,27</bounds>
        <class>charactersheetlist</class>
        <recordname>charsheet</recordname>
        <tooltip>
          <text>Characters</text>
        </tooltip>
        <nodrag />
        <closetoggle />
      </windowreferencecontrol>
       ...
</windowclass>

I'd like to find that panel in order to disable the windowreferencecontrol but findWindow doesn't seem to be locating it.

I though this would work since the panel class has no database node but it just gives an "invalid parameters passed to findWindow" error:

Interface.findWindow("shortcuts_dm"), nil);

Also tried:

 
Interface.findWindow("shortcuts_dm"), "");

and

 
Interface.findWindow("shortcuts_dm"), "nil");

both of which return nil


Anyone know how to do this?

[joshuha]

Interface.findWindow("shortcuts_dm", ""); should work. I use this all the time for custom windowclass controls not tied to the DB.

[Toadwart]

Cheers Joshua.
Will triple-check my code. Probably some silly mistake like an incorrect uppercase/lowercase character...

[Toadwart]

Bump. I still can't figure out how to use findWindow to find a panel.

e.g. trying to find the chat window:

 
if Interface.findWindow("chat", "") then
  print("found chat");
else
  print("couldnt find chat");
end

comes back with "couldnt find chat"...

Works fine for normal windowclasses that are not bound to a datasource but not for classes used for panels.

[Toadwart]

Aha! Now I see your sneaky bit of coding! And I shall make like a and it for my own nefarious purposes!

Or in english:
The onInit function in chat_chat.lua stores a reference to the chat window (self) within the ChatManager.lua script block. Hence, I can access the chat window from anywhere else by caalling a function I have added to ChatManager.lua!