chili questions:

[smoth]

Drawing lines in chili windows, how do I do them? I need to do lines for a line graph.

How can I specify an alternate texture for a skin element? Say like a chili button, I have the skin's button texture but for this one button, I want to make it different texturally.

[jK]

@LineGraph
You may want to use a simple Control and write your own DrawControl function.

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local graph = {0.1, 0.3, 0.2, 0.4, 0.3, 0.6}

local DrawGraph()
  local graph_n = #data
  if (graph_n < 2) then return end

  for i=1, graph_n do
    local ordinate = data[i]
    gl.Vertex((i - 1)/(graph_n - 1), ordinate)
  end
end

local canvas = Chili.Control:New{
  ...
  DrawControl = function (obj)
    local x = obj.x
    local y = obj.y
    local w = obj.width
    local h = obj.height

    gl.Color(obj.backgroundColor)
    gl.PushMatrix()
      gl.Translate(x, y, 0)
      gl.Scale(w, h, 1)
      gl.BeginEnd(GL.LINES, DrawGraph)
    gl.PopMatrix()
  end
  ...
}

@per control skin
Either define SkinName (if you want to use a diff one), or just override the skin params. The skin params are what you find in skin.lua, e.g.:

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skin.button = {
  TileImageBK = ":cl:tech_button.png",
  TileImageFG = ":cl:empty.png",
  tiles = {22, 22, 22, 22}, --// tile widths: left,top,right,bottom
  padding = {10, 10, 10, 10},

  backgroundColor = {1, 1, 1, 0.7},

  DrawControl = DrawButton,
}

this gets appended to all Chili.Buttons, now each instance can override those if they want, e.g.:

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local btn = Chili.Button:New{
  ...
  TileImageBK = MY_PATH .. "/my_button.png",
  tiles = {7, 7, 7, 7},
  ...
}

[smoth]

wow, thanks jk!

[smoth]

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....
		else
			gridchildren[k] = Chili.Button:New{
				parent				= parentPanel,
				TileImageBK 		= ":cl:button_glow.png",
				caption				= '',
				x					= 3+gridXPos,
				y					= 5+gridYPos,
...

So I tried this but it doesn't pick up the texture in the skin dir. Any idea?

[hoijui]

my own chili question...

is it possible to use spring window/screen relative positioning of chili windows? It is very annoying to have to manually reconfigure the whole layout with Ctrl+F11 every time i change spring window size.

[jK]

So I tried this but it doesn't pick up the texture in the skin dir. Any idea?

Already answered in chat. Skins get their paths autoexpanded, so when you override them you need to define the full path.

[jK]

my own chili question...
is it possible to use spring window/screen relative positioning of chili windows? It is very annoying to have to manually reconfigure the whole layout with Ctrl+F11 every time i change spring window size.

Chili supports relative & absolute constraints.

[hoijui]

hmm ok...
i have tried to find a related option in ZK interface options, but there seems to be none. i hope it is clear what i am asking for...
when i place the unit info window into the lower-left corner, i want it to have 100% y and 0% x coordinates (don't know where sure where the origin is in chili, but you know what i mean), so it would always stay in that corner, no matter how i resize the screen. this should be the default (docking status had to be remembered, so that would override the coordinates).

[knorke]

appearently it is as easy as
x = '50%',
y = '50%',
http://springrts.com/wiki/Lesson_2_:_Dy ... el_content

Also the threads by that sunspot guy might be interessting.

[Google_Frog]

It's not a simple fix for ZK because Selections breaks the UI rules and is not properly scalable. Docking would need changing to support it.

[smoth]

So I tried this but it doesn't pick up the texture in the skin dir. Any idea?

Already answered in chat. Skins get their paths autoexpanded, so when you override them you need to define the full path.

yeah still working on that. I cannot figure out how to make the skinhandler vars accessible or call the functions in it. I wish I knew how but I don't understand what you are doing nor can I spend all sunday figuring exactly how chili uses the file.

So far I have done this:

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local CHILI_DIRNAME = LUAUI_DIRNAME.."Widgets/chili/"

local skinFolder = CHILI_DIRNAME .. "Skins/"

now I just have to find out what my current skin name is and be done with it.

[jK]

try

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local skinFolder = Chili.SkinHandler.defaultSkin.info.dir

or even better

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local skinName = "GundamSkinXYZ"
local skinFolder = Chili.SkinHandler.knownSkins[skinName:lower()].info.dir

[smoth]

seems I cannot access Chili. until update() why is that? I know it's old-school but I like to put var declarations and initializations at the top of my source file.

[jK]

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local Chili

function widget:Initialize()
...
  Chili = WG.Chili
...
end

[smoth]

I see. thanks!

[hoijui]

It's not a simple fix for ZK because Selections breaks the UI rules and is not properly scalable.

I don't understand this one... selections when in Ctrl+F11 mode?

[Google_Frog]

The elements of the unit selections box that appears above the command menu when units are selected do not resize with the box. The minimum size is the default size and also the only usable size.

[hoijui]

ahh i see, i see. so far, i was not considering the size of windows to scale aswell, only the position. i guess for some windows, scaling them makes no sense, and for others it would make more sense then not scaling them.