Displaying lists on grids.

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Jul 27 2009, 12:10 pm
Is it possible to display a statpanel like list on a grid? I've been working on my projects interface for a long time now, and I'm planning on removing statpanels and making grid inventory tab, skills tab, quests tab, and more.

I tried a code but the output came out to "/list" when picking up an item. I know that this is possible using multiple grids, but I'm trying to keep the game efficient and I currently have object huds on my game but they aren't too efficient.

This is what I have so far:
1: A button that opens up the grid with winshow, and closes any other grid below it.
2: Set up so that when an object is added to the list, I get the outcome: "/list".

If this isn't possible, any ideas on a better method then having to use objects for HUDs?
Jul 27 2009, 12:14 pm
Outputting a list object to anything other than a statpanel usually ends up in "/list". What you need to do is loop through the items in the list and output each one individually.
Jul 27 2009, 12:16 pm
 
mob
    var/list/stuff=list("I think this is a:","Good idea")
    verb/outputlist()
        var/gridtext
        for(var/v in src.stuff)
            gridtext+="[v]\n"
            src<<output(gridtext, "controlshere")


Make sure to set in the skin editor (for the grid) "Is a flexible list of entries".
Jul 27 2009, 12:21 pm
In response to Kaiochao
Kaiochao wrote:
Outputting a list object to anything other than a statpanel usually ends up in "/list". What you need to do is loop through the items in the list and output each one individually.

Ah. I see.. Thanks for the quick reply. It helped a lot :).
Jul 28 2009, 12:24 am
In response to Vic Rattlehead
Vic Rattlehead wrote:
> mob
>   var/list/stuff=list("I think this is a:","Good idea")
>   verb/outputlist()
>       var/gridtext
>       for(var/v in src.stuff)
>           gridtext+="[v]\n"
>           src<<output(gridtext, "controlshere")
>

Make sure to set in the skin editor (for the grid) "Is a flexible list of entries".

Thanks for the code but it's not actually showing the objects on the grid, it only outputs the item's name. I tried modifying it a bit by changing

gridtext+="[v]\n"
//to
gridtext+="[v]"
//but I still only got the item's name to show up so I tried
gridtext+=v
//and it displayed the item perfectly, allowing the click procs to actually work on it, and the object actually showing up on the grid but then I came up with another problem..
//When picking up a second item, I would get a
//runtime error saying type mismatch
//"itemname+=itemname". I know what it means 
//but I don't know any other way to get the objects to show up on the grid.


I've been trying to get this to work for a long time and I know that I'm close.

Any help is greatly appreciated.
Jul 28 2009, 4:52 am
In response to Forerunnerz
This is how I do it my game:
    proc
        gridit()
            .=0
            for(var/O in contents)
                src << output(O, "grid1:1,[++.]")