Attributes Framework

[jameslkingsley]

This is the system that will manage UI's for either specific object classes or generic dialogs. It is dynamically created by traversing through the given attributes class and creating its controls inside the parent window. God help us all.

[654wak654]

Table of attribute types:

Type name	Type of control	default value	details about return value
string	editbox	""	value inside the editbox (STR)
string_long	ml editbox	""	value inside the editbox (STR)
range	2 editboxes	[0, 0]	values in both editboxes (ARR)
position	3 editboxes	[0, 0, 0]	vector (x,y,z) (ARR)
color	4 editboxes	[0, 0, 0, 0]	color (r,g,b,a) (ARR)
date	3 comboboxes	epoch*	date (year, month, day) (ARR)
list	combobox	0	corresponding value to curSel (STR)
number	editbox	0	value number inside the editbox (NUM)
slider	slider	0	current pos of slider (NUM)
bool	checkbox	0 (false)	is checkbox selected (BOOL)
custom	good luck	nil	(ANY)

*epoch is January first of smallest year given

Example:

class GVARMAIN(attributes) {
    class CAManBase {
        class ADDON {
            class General {
                class Awesome {
                    displayName = "Is awesome";
                    tooltipText = "Select if this unit is awesome or not.";
                    type = "BOOL";
                    default = 1; // Optional, default is 0
                    exceptions[] = {"isAlive"};
                    expression = QUOTE(_x setVariable [QGVAR(isAwesome), _this]);
                };
                class CombatMode {
                    displayName = "Combat Mode";
                    tooltipText = "Select this unit's group's combat mode.";
                    type = "COMBO";
                    values[] = {"BLUE", "GREEN", "WHITE", "YELLOW", "RED"};
                    labels[] = {
                        "Never fire",
                        "Hold fire - defend only",
                        "Hold fire, engage at will",
                        "Fire at will",
                        "Fire at will, engage at will"
                    };
                    expression = "(group _x) setCombatMode _this";
                    condition = "_x == leader _x";
                };
            };
        };
    };
};

[jameslkingsley]

Moved to http://marseditor.com/docs/development/attributes/