GUI - Grid Control

[Stuart Walpole]

• Problem: A common GUI need are tables or lists of buttons with similar properties, such as a construction queue, list of garrisoned unit portraits, or table of statistics. Creating,
• Solution: One solution is to be able to omit the XML and create a control instance entirely from script. A much safer solution, however, would be a "grid" control which acts as a container for an array of child objects of the same type with the same default properties from a given starting position. Only one grid would need to be declared and it would generate a specified number of child controls. It would automatically take care of lining up the buttons and fit to a specific spacing/rows/columns if specified. The child objects could then be individually accessed and their properties modified.

[Philip Taylor]

This is basically fixed (and used by the new session GUI) - use the new <repeat> tag to define repetitive objects in the XML, then write scripts to show/hide and to compute positions.

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