Chili - Toggle window visiblity?

[Nerris]

Hey all,

I was wondering if anybody had a way to toggle the visibility of certain portions of a Chili interface? I have several sub-menus that need to be accessed during the course of gameplay and was looking at Chili as a means to implement this. The issue is of course that many of the menus should only be visible at certain times.

Currently the only way I see of doing this is to set all Chili elements to null, then redefine the whole interface. I was looking for a cleaner way of handling this, hopefully a simple 'visible' field that I can toggle.

Does anything like this exist already?

[smoth]

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local function HideShowResearch()
	if WG.uiElementRegistry["research"] == true then
		researchItemsClosed = false
	end
	
	if researchItemsClosed == true then
		img_researcharrow.file	= "bitmaps/ui/arrow_right.png";
		img_researcharrow:Invalidate();
		if WG.myFaction == "zeon" then
			(Chili.Screen0):AddChild(researchBarZeon)
		else
			(Chili.Screen0):AddChild(researchBarFed)
		end
		newItems = false
		NewItemGlow()
		researchItemsClosed = false
	else
		img_researcharrow.file	= "bitmaps/ui/arrow_left.png";
		img_researcharrow:Invalidate();
		(Chili.Screen0):RemoveChild(researchBarZeon);
		(Chili.Screen0):RemoveChild(researchBarFed);
		researchItemsClosed = true
	end
end

from my research widget.
look at add and remove child calls.

[jK]

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window0:Hide()
window1:Show()

when you got latest github chili repo (https://github.com/jk3064/chiliui/blob/ ... t.lua#L390)

Note, these changes were never commited to ZK.

[Nerris]

That was extremely fast, and extremely useful.

I clearly need to rethink how I'm using Chili a little, as I've been basing my work mostly of the tutorial and not the Chili code itself. Your use of AddChild/RemoveChild has answered a lot of questions/issues I was having.

Thanks for your time.
I expect I'll be releasing a beta to the community in the near future.

[smoth]

Use JK's method if you can manage getting the newer version of Chili. JK is the Developer of Chili, as such his advice is more sound than mine.

[Nerris]

Good Advice.

The Show(), Hide() method is working much cleaner as I jump back and forth between menus. Any chance there's a way to initialize a window as hidden, or should I simply create the object and then call Hide() immediately?

[smoth]

Create then hide