GBPVRX2.Popups.PopupBase - GetBackgroundArgs()

[psycik]

Not sure if you'll get time to answer this.

But I have a class that has GBPVRX2.Popups.PopupBase as it's superclass.

The skin contains the following:

Code:

<CompositeImage name="PopupBackground" size="50,50">
  <DrawRoundedRect loc="2,2" size="96,96" fillColor="PopupBackground" borderColor="PopupBorder" radius="@PopupCornerRadius" borderWidth="@PopupBorderWidth"/>
  <DrawText text="Select Option" loc="0,5" size="100,20" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="Center"/>
  <DrawText text="@updateMessage" loc="30,50" size="70,20" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="Left"/>
</CompositeImage>

In GetRenderList I call

Code:

System.Collections.Hashtable args = this.getBackgroundArgs();

hoping that it will return a HashTable with "@updateMessage" in it.

It this how it should work?

[whurlston]

Put an override in the class:

Code:

protected override Hashtable getBackgroundArgs()
        {
            Hashtable args = new Hashtable();
            args["@updateMessage"] = "Fill in message";
            return args;
        }

If you want to change it after the initial render, it should be in a separate composite image and should be manipulated in getPostBackgroundRenderList(). At least that's how I do it.

[psycik]

So how do those args populate the compositeimage though?

[psycik]

hmm, ok, it just works...

Not sure how, sub must call Getbackground args and use it to populate the image..

[whurlston]

I have a separate composite image defined:

Code:

        <CompositeImage name="RunTime" size="20,6">
            <DrawText text="@runtime" loc="0,0" size="100,100" textStyle="GeneralTextStyle" align="left" valign="middle"/>
        </CompositeImage>

And in my popup class I have the following:

Code:

private UiStatic RunTimeUi;

        private void BuildRunTimeUi()
        {
            Hashtable rtHash = new Hashtable();
            rtHash.Add("@runtime", "My RunTime text.");
            if (RunTimeUi == null) RunTimeUi = new UiStatic(skinHelper2, "RunTime", rtHash);
            else RunTimeUi.SetArgs(rtHash);
        }

        protected override ArrayList getPostBackgroundRenderList()
        {
            
            ArrayList renderList = new ArrayList();
            BuildRunTimeUi();
            renderList.AddRange(RunTimeUi.GetRenderList());
            return renderList;
        }

Code is truncated to relevant parts of course.

[whurlston]

hmm, ok, it just works...

Not sure how, sub must call Getbackground args and use it to populate the image..

hmm... you mean I do stuff the hard way? Who would have thought that? I should really learn how to code one day and simplify my life