Stuck with list control.. (1 Viewer)

[Tomato]

Hi there.

Im trying to add just a "simple" list to my plugin containing some buddies.

I added the follogin code to my skinfile:

<window>
  <id>4788</id>
  <defaultcontrol>2</defaultcontrol>
  <allowoverlay>yes</allowoverlay>
  <controls>

    <control>
      <description>BackGround</description>
      <type>image</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>0</posX>
      <posY>0</posY>
      <width>720</width>
      <height>576</height>
      <texture>background.png</texture>
    </control>

    <control>
      <description>an Image</description>
      <type>image</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>75</posX>
      <posY>370</posY>
      <texture>hover_my videos.png</texture>
    </control>

    <control>
      <description>text label</description>
      <type>label</type>
      <id>1</id>
      <posX>250</posX>
      <posY>70</posY>
      <label>Some text</label>
      <font>font16</font>
      <align>right</align>
      <textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor>
    </control>

    <control>
      <description>Connect to ICQ</description>
      <type>button</type>
      <id>2</id>
      <posX>60</posX>
      <posY>97</posY>
      <label>Connect</label>
      <onleft>2</onleft>
      <onright>2</onright>
      <onup>2</onup>
      <ondown>3</ondown>
    </control>

    <control>
      <description>Setup</description>
      <type>button</type>
      <id>3</id>
      <posX>60</posX>
      <posY>131</posY>
      <label>Setup</label>
      <onleft>2</onleft>
      <onright>2</onright>
      <onup>2</onup>
      <ondown>4</ondown>
    </control>

    <control>
      <description>doof</description>
      <type>listcontrol</type>
      <id>3</id>
      <posX>60</posX>
      <posY>151</posY>
      <label>doof</label>
      <onleft>2</onleft>
      <onright>2</onright>
      <onup>2</onup>
      <ondown>4</ondown>
    </control>


[B]<control>
  <description>listcontrol</description>
  <type>listcontrol</type>
  <id>50</id>
  <width>50</width>
  <height>60</height>
  <onleft>2</onleft>
  <onright>51</onright>
  <onup>2</onup>
  <ondown>2</ondown>
  <textcolor>FFFFFFFF</textcolor>
</control>[/B]





  </controls>
</window>

To be honest nearly just copy/paste from the example in wiki

After that I inserted the following code into my c#-project:

[SkinControlAttribute(50)]
        protected GUIListControl ListControl = null;
[...]

function dontcare() {
ListControl.Add(new GUIListItem("HOWDIE!"));
}

But nothing seems to happen. (I cant see any ListControl). Im quite sure this is something relly stupid but I just don't get it (and didn't find an answer here either).

So: Wheres my mistake?

 

[CyberDannen]

Goog Morning,
i will be going the First steps in Plugin Delepoment, but I have the same problem. Can someone helps us ?
Thx
Christian

 

[Bavarian]

The control size looks very small, just change it to

<width>400</width>
<height>450</height>

 

[MrBacardi]

Hello,

was this issue resolved? I'm having the exact same problem.

 

[patrick]

Not sure it matters but have you tried specifying a position?

<posX>100</posX>  <posY>100</posY>

patrick

 

[Doodles]

Hi! I'm no expert, but I've had some experience which may help.

Every control type is pre-specified in the file reference.xml. So, whenever you use a control in your skin file, it presets the parameters to those specified in reference.xml and then overrides any you specify with the values you define. So, if you don't specify <posX> and <posY> in your skin file, it will use those give for listcontrol in reference.xml. I recommend you review reference.xml to see which parameters you need to override.

It does look like the height and width specified are too small. The number of items displayed in a listcontrol is given roughly by <height>/(<textureheight> + <spacebetweenitems>). So, in the example above, if <contexheight> + <spacebetweenitems> (from reference.xml) is larger than 60, no items will appear, so the list appears blank.

Hope this helps.