UI Scripting; Managing access to arrays

Aurasphere — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 10:24:18 GMT

I would like to use arrays for certain fields; is there a way to have the UI allow a drop down from an array field rather than what Im getting atm

Manual states

I need a drop down for each array item and dont want this behaviour which jump s the user to an standard array input and not highlighting the relative index

I would like each field to display the field value

Re: UI Scripting; Managing access to arrays

Lingwisyer — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 01:45:41 GMT

What happens if you use ui_listfield?

Re: UI Scripting; Managing access to arrays

scottjm — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 05:25:37 GMT

How are you structuring the parameter's array currently? Do you have 24 separate parameters each with an array, or a single parameter with 24 items in the array.

If its a single parameter with 24 items to represent each component, you can just include the array index after the parameter name in UI_INFIELD .

ui_infield param[1] x, y, width, height

However, to get the dropdown list of available items you need to use a index-string pair value set.

So instead of setting your parameter you are storing the information in to a String, set it to an Integer.

And then use the following Value code in your Parameter script:

dim aComponentsIndex[] dim aComponentsDescription[] aComponentsIndex[1] = 1 aComponentsDescription[1] = "1 - PIERS" aComponentsIndex[2] = 2 aComponentsDescription[2] = "2 - FOOTINGS" VALUES{2} "param", aComponentsIndex, aComponentsDescription

And an associated example in the Interface Script:

UI_INFIELD{3} param[1], 10,10,300,20 UI_INFIELD{3} param[2], 10,10,300,20 UI_INFIELD{3} param[3], 10,10,300,20 UI_INFIELD{3} param[4], 10,10,300,20 ....

However that doesn't seem to be showing the the description in the UI field for some reason, so I had to go down the route of using the UI_INFIELD dropdown method. Full script:

!! MASTER SCRIPT dim aComponentsIndex[] ! Create the array to story the indexes of your dropdown list dim aComponentsDescription[] ! Create another array for Description of each item in your dropdown list dim aComponentsImages[] ! And a last array to link to an image file for each item - this isnt required but the UI_INFIELD was requiring something aComponentsIndex[1] = 1 aComponentsDescription[1] = "1 - PIERS" aComponentsImages[1] = "" aComponentsIndex[2] = 2 aComponentsDescription[2] = "2 - FOOTINGS" aComponentsImages[2] = "" !! create the additional items in your dropdown in the above format !! PARAMETER SCRIPT VALUES{2} "param", aComponentsIndex, aComponentsDescription !! INTERFACE SCRIPT row_height = 20 ! Set the Height of each input row for i=1 to 5 ! Loop through each item in the parameters array to display an input UI_INFIELD{3} param[i], 10, 10+row_height*i, 300, 20 , ! parameter, x,y,width,height 8, "", ! method:dropdown, picture_name: n/a 0, ! images_numer:n/a 0, 0, 0, ! rows_number:n/a, cell_x:n/a, cell_y:n/a, 0, 0, ! image_x:n/a, image_y:n/a, aComponentsImages, aComponentsDescription, aComponentsIndex ! the arrays containing the images, description and index of the dropdown list next i

Frustratingly whenever I tried to use "" in place of aComponentsImages it was only giving a warning, but then wasnt working, so i had to create a separate array to story the blank strings for the image component of the UI_INFIELD dropdown.

Anyone else know how to avoid that?

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