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Multiline editable text for behaviors

by Joe Rossi · in Torque Game Builder · 01/24/2008 (10:38 pm) · 1 replies

I'd like to see more widgets for Behavior fields. I think a multiline editable textbox could be useful for adding things like snippets of code to run on an event, or any long strings.

I tried to hack it in, I got pretty close but I can't get it to update correctly. It also has no undo. If someone who knows the TGE GUI system could fix this up I think it'd be a nice addition to the behaviors.

Here's what I have so far, add this to your tools\behaviorEditor\Scripts\fieldtypes.ed.cs
function QuickEditCodeBoxEdit::setProperty(%this, %object){ 
   %this.text = QuickEditField::getObjectValue( %this, %object );
}
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Torque Owner Joe Rossi
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01/24/2008 (10:39 pm)
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function QuickEditCodeBoxEdit::updateProperty(%this, %object){ 
   QuickEditField::updateProperty( %this, %object, %this.text );
}

  
 function LBQuickEditContent::createcodeBoxText( %this, %accessor,  %label,   %tooltip   ){    
    %container = new GuiControl() {
      canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
      Profile = "EditorContainerProfile";
      HorizSizing = "right";
      VertSizing = "bottom";
      Position = "100 3";
      Extent = "200 100";
      MinExtent = "8 2";
      canSave = "1";
      Visible = "1";
      hovertime = "100";
    };
      %r =  new GuiScrollCtrl( ) {                                   
         profile = "GuiScrollProfile";
         horizSizing = "right";
         vertSizing = "bottom";                                 
         position = "100 3";
         extent = "200 100";
         minExtent = "8 2";
         visible = "1";
         willFirstRespond = "1";
         hScrollBar = "alwaysOn";
         vScrollBar = "alwaysOn";
         constantThumbHeight = "0";
         childMargin = "0 0";
       };   
            
       %editControl = new GuiMLTextEditCtrl(  )  { 
          class =   QuickEditCodeBoxEdit ;
          profile       = "EditorTextEdit";
          tooltipProfile = "EditorToolTipProfile";
          canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
          horizSizing = "right";
          vertSizing = "bottom";
          position = "100 3";
          extent = "200 100";
          minExtent = "8 8";
          visible = "1";
          helpTag = "0";
          lineSpacing = "2";
          allowColorChars = "0";
          maxChars = "-1";   
          undoLabel = %label;
          internalName = %accessor @ "codeBox";          
          sinkAllKeyEvents = "0";
          historySize = "0";
          canSave = "1";
          hovertime = "100";  
          accessor = %accessor; 
          object = %this.object;
          useWords = false; 
       };   
       
       
      %labelControl = new GuiTextCtrl() {
        canSaveDynamicFields = "0";
        Profile = "EditorFontHLBold";
        HorizSizing = "right";
        VertSizing = "bottom";
        Position = "16 3";
        Extent = "100 18";
        MinExtent = "8 2";
        canSave = "1";
        Visible = "1";
        hovertime = "100";
        tooltip = %tooltip;
        tooltipProfile = "EditorToolTipProfile";
        text = %label;
        maxLength = "1024";
      }; 
      %editControl.setProperty(%this.object);
      %editControl.altCommand = "ToolManager.getLastWindow().setFirstResponder(); " @ %editControl @ ".updateProperty(" @ %editControl @ ".object" @ ");";
      %editControl.validate = %editControl @ ".updateProperty(" @ %editControl @ ".object" @ ");";
   
      %r.add(  %editControl   );  
      %container.add(  %r   )
      %container.add( %labelControl );
      %this.addProperty( %editControl );
      %this.add(  %container );
      return %container;
 }
 
  
BehaviorEditor::registerFieldType("codeBox", "createcodeBox");

function BehaviorFieldStack::createcodeBox(%this, %behavior, %fieldIndex ){ 
   %fieldInfo = %behavior.template.getBehaviorField( %fieldIndex );
   %name = getField( %fieldInfo, 0 );
   %description = %behavior.template.getBehaviorFieldDescription( %fieldIndex );    
   %control = %this.createcodeBoxText( %name,  %name,    %description     );
   %editField = %control.findObjectByInternalName( %name @ "codeBox");    
   %editField.object = %behavior;   
}