SkinSetting for color? (1 Viewer)

[mbuzina]

Why does the following produce an invisible control:

	<control Style="headerStyle">
	  <id>0</id>
	  <type>label</type>
	  <description>Header label</description>
	  <textcolor>#skin.color.highlight</textcolor>
	  <posX>40</posX>
	  <posY>10</posY>
	  <label>#header.label</label>
	</control>

Having the following entry in SkinSettings.xml:

	<entry name="#skin.color.highlight">FFB75700</entry>

P.S.: Font, width & height is defined in the headerStyle.

 

[catavolt]

Good question
From the code posted above this should work - will do own tests

 

[mbuzina]

Thx.m I am trying to build a new Skin from the ground up instead of re-using another skin. This might result in me doing things a bit different and might discover a few bugs in skin engine. My idea is a very flexible skin using very smooth animation, which takes all its input from the SkinSettings (incl. BasicHome layout). I use the "skin script" very extensively at the moment - sometimes a little bit frustrating, but I like puzzles ;-)

My only issue is, that I am by no way a gfx designer - basic drawing, OK, but more complicated things tend to go wrong.

 

[catavolt]

Hehehe, welcome to the club

 

[kiwijunglist]

This will be useful, bc I'm always trying to do weird stuff and I never know if it's me making a mistake or there might be a bug/limitation of the skin engine

 

[mbuzina]

OK, here is another one:
I am trying to do some complicated mapping of SkinSettings:
I have one setting: #BasicHome.Current.ID which contains the ID of the current main menu section (is set by the buttons on focus).
I have 10 settings named: #BasicHome.Bx.Overlay.WW containing 0,1,2 or 3 (position of the Overlay).
I am trying to define a label as follows:

<define>#BasicHome.Current.Overlay.WW:#(choose(#BasicHome.Current.ID,#BasicHome.B0.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B1.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B2.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B3.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B4.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B5.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B6.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B7.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B8.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B9.Overlay.WW))</define>

When I show this in a label I get the error message: System.MissingMethodException: Member could not be found... (see screenshot). I will try this on MP 1.3 as well, but this is now on 1.4.

Any ideas?

P.S.: Does not work with 1.3 as well.

 

[mbuzina]

Yeah, found it: choose needs a reals int, so I need to do as follows:

<define>#BasicHome.Current.Overlay.WW:#(choose(cint(#BasicHome.Current.ID),#BasicHome.B0.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B1.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B2.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B3.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B4.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B5.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B6.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B7.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B8.Overlay.WW,#BasicHome.B9.Overlay.WW))</define>

(I also had an issue with a wrong defined SkinSetting, only cost about 30 minutes searching )

 

[mbuzina]

Now I am getting another strange issue (1.3), reusing a define in an expression goes wrong:

<define>#test:#(string.trim('2'))</define>
	<controls>
		<control Style="debugGroupStyle">
			<description>Debug Controls</description>
			<type>group</type>
			<control Style="debugControlStyle">
				<type>button</type>
				<label>#test</label>
			</control>
			<control Style="debugControlStyle">
				<type>button</type>
				<label>#(choose(cint(#test),'Zero','One','Two'))</label>
			</control>
			<control Style="debugControlStyle">
				<type>button</type>
				<label>#(string.format('-{0}-',#test))</label>
			</control>
		</control>
	</controls>

This should result in
2
Two
-2-

But it results in:
2
Zero
--

What is happening here?

 

[mbuzina]

Update: Making this a property with evaluateNow=false results in:
2
System.FormatException
-#(string.trim('2'))-

evaluateNow=True is
Musik (Translation)
Two
-2-

But I need late evaluation (my original contains other properties that change in time). This looks like a bug to me.

 

[mbuzina]

Also great: You can not use a Boolean skin setting to switch visibility directly! I have a Boolean setting named:
#skin.ShowTouchControls (true/false)
and having

<visible>#skin.ShowTouchControls</visible>

results in the control being visible always. Bug?

Update: No Bug, you need to use skin.hassetting(#skin.ShowTouchControls) - which is a bit misleading for me as the skin has the setting, but it is set to false...