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Wintermute Engine => Technical forum => Topic started by: noelbruton on January 02, 2008, 12:02:10 PM

Title: Using Editor - Window won't close
Post by: noelbruton on January 02, 2008, 12:02:10 PM

Am I doing something stupid? I have a window with an editor and two buttons. I can enter text in the editor and I can see the cursors over the buttons but the buttons do not respond, window will not close, ESC doesn't work and I have to CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of the scene.

The game calls the window:
  var MyWindow = Game.LoadWindow("scenes\Computer\scr\password.window");
  MyWindow.Center();
  MyWindow.GoExclusive();

The window says:
 WINDOW
 {
  X = 0
  Y = 0
  WIDTH = 1024
  HEIGHT = 768
  NAME = "PasswordWindow"
  IMAGE = "scenes\17_Rhiannon\Computer\PasswordScreen.png"
  SCRIPT = "scenes\17_Rhiannon\Computer\scr\password.script"

  EDIT
    {
    NAME = "pwentry"
    ; position and size (relative to the window position)
    X = 383
    Y = 370
    WIDTH = 250
    HEIGHT = 42
    ; editor state
    VISIBLE = TRUE
    DISABLED = FALSE
    ; fonts 
    FONT = "fonts\sserif.font"
    FONT_SELECTED = "fonts\outline_red.font"
    ; extended properties
    PARENT_NOTIFY = TRUE
    MAX_LENGTH = 8
    FRAME_WIDTH = 2
    }     

  BUTTON
    {
    NAME = "ok"
    X = 578
    Y = 426
    WIDTH = 60
    HEIGHT = 36
   CURSOR = "sprites\system\RhiannonCursors\Action2.png"
    }

  BUTTON
    {
    NAME = "power_down"
    X = 512
    Y = 692
    WIDTH = 40
    HEIGHT = 50
   CURSOR = "sprites\system\RhiannonCursors\Action2.png"
    }
 }

The Window script says:

 #include "scripts\base.inc"
 #include "scripts\keys.inc"

 var Editor;
 Editor = this.GetControl("pwentry");
 
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

on "ok"
  {
  // Check whether it's the right password
  this.Close();
  }

on "power_down"
  {
  this.Close();
  }

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
on "Keypress"
  {
  var button;

  if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_ESCAPE)
    {
    button = self.GetControl("close");
    button.Press();
    }
  else if(Keyboard.KeyCode==VK_RETURN)
    {
    button = self.GetControl("ok");
    button.Press();
    }
  }

I've read everything I can find on the forum and now I'm completely at a loss. Can anybody help please?

Thanks

NB

Title: Re: Using Editor - Window won't close
Post by: Mnemonic on January 02, 2008, 01:15:51 PM

You will need to add the following line to the buttons definitions:

PARENT_NOTIFY = TRUE

Currently your buttons don't send any events to the window, that's why you can't do anything with it.
Any reason why you're not using the WindowEdit editor?

Title: Re: Using Editor - Window won't close
Post by: noelbruton on January 02, 2008, 01:28:46 PM

Thanks Mnemonic, that fixed it. I've never really fully understood what a 'Parent' is until now.  As to not using the Window editor - I just got used to doing windows manually before you released the editor, but this is the first time I've needed a window that can accept keyboard input.

Thanks again and Happy New Year.

NB