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wireless 'Properties' dials, z ordering problem

Archive · 2006 8 old posts

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angstrom ·

Hi, firstly an explanation of the basis of the problem ... I've figured out how to get dials to appear on properties panels, simply add a wireless V out and name it 'Properties' and your dial appears on the properties panel.

like this

notice the gradient background and the dials? nice and handy for altering values.

the problem But, I cant sort the z-order correctly, there are a couple of properties obscured in the above image. If I unlock the property panel and send the gradient to the back it all looks fine ... until I close and reopen the property panel.

Is this a hangover from the property position bug ?

HERES THE OSM it's a WIP

malc ·

Hmm, yes - something wrong there. I'll have a look.

oddson ·

You have both a nameless wireless V connector and a "Properties" wireless V connector in your background module. Remove the nameless (add an explict area definition if you need to) and it should resolve the problem.

-edit- well that might not be the whole story but it's part of it...

angstrom ·

no, thats intentional - the nameless wireless routes to the main GUI (the default behaviour for V wireless links), the one named 'Properties' shows the 'preview' in the properties panel. As I want the background to show in both the main GUI and the properties preview it need both a nameless V and a named 'Properties' V connector.

I did try a good few variations before posting, such as - naming and un-naming the various wireless receivers, alternative routings, using the 'Properties' gui module rather than the version without ..etc. But I didn't get anywhere different. Often more of the textual properties inherited the defect. I then remembered the property position bug, and as this implementation is a little unusual I realised it could have been missed in the last bugfix.

oddson ·

I think it's that you don't have an MGUI component in the background module.

If the background is defined with an MGUI then you can move it and reposition it in the z order.

500th post! 😀

malc ·

Yeah, it's a bug - as you suspected, a hangover from the efficiency changes made to the properties.

To the man with 500 posts: congrats, but more importantly thanks very much indeed for your contribution!

Tom7777 ·

500th post! 😀

Congratulations oddson 🙂

skOre ·

Tom7777 wrote: 500th post! 😀

Congratulations oddson 🙂

teh congrats!

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