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Dynamicaly create child gui object from script.

by Peterjohn Griffiths · in Torque Game Engine · 09/15/2006 (6:55 am) · 5 replies

Hi,
I am creating a Network Lobby for my driving game and will be releasing it as a resource when finished.
I have come across a small problem I don't know how to resolve.
When people join a server they join the network lobby and can chat and then click a check box when ready to play.
I have the chat all worked out but I am having problems with the Player List.
I have a guiScrollCtrl called NetworkLoungePlayerList and I want to add each player to it when they join the server.
1st, I want to add a guiMLTextCtrl with their player name and 2nd add a guiCheckBoxCtrl next to it.
The problem I have is I need to create these dynamicaly through script as child objects of the guiScrollCtrl called NetworkLoungePlayerList.
Here is the code I have but it doesn't create them as child objects.
function NLAddPlayer(%PlayerName)
{
	NLAddPlayerName(%PlayerName);
}

function NLAddPlayerName(%PlayerName){
   new GuiMLTextCtrl("NLPlayerListText" @ %PlayerName) { //Name the gui object.
      Profile = "GuiMLTextProfile";
      text = %PlayerName;
      HorizSizing = "relative";
      VertSizing = "relative";
      position = "2 2";
      Extent = "376 52";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      Visible = "1";
      Variable = "";
      lineSpacing = "2";
      allowColorChars = "0";
      maxChars = "-1";
   };
}

function NLAddPlayerReadyCheckbox(%PlayerName){
   new GuiCheckBoxCtrl("NLPlayerListCheckbox" @ %PlayerName) {
      Profile = "GuiCheckBoxProfile";
      HorizSizing = "right";
      VertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "305 4";
      Extent = "72 30";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      Visible = "1";
      text = "Button";
      groupNum = "-1";
      buttonType = "ToggleButton";
   };
}

Many thanks in advance for any help you can give me.
Pejayuk.
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Associate Manoel Neto
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#1
09/15/2006 (7:10 am)
Of course it doesn't. You need to manually add the objects you created to the gui object you want. Every gui object can act as a group and you can add objects to them.

Torque Owner Peterjohn Griffiths
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#2
09/15/2006 (7:18 am)
Thats what I want to do but through script. The above works as far as it creates the object but how do you add the object through script as a child of another gui object.

Associate Manoel Neto
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#3
09/15/2006 (8:06 am) 
parent.add(child);

That's the syntax.

Torque Owner Peterjohn Griffiths
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#4
09/15/2006 (8:23 am)
Thank you Manoel Neto. That works a treat.
I have been looking at this for hrs, banging my head against the wall so to speak.
Just need to add some position code and its away.
Many thanks again.

Associate Manoel Neto
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#5
09/15/2006 (10:48 am)
Use a debug build and call dump() on any object from the console, and you'll get a nice list of all methods avaliable for them.