Yes, you can do references between windows within MainHUD, Inventory, Etc. all you want, just be sure not to go all the way back to root.

Thank You.

Found a decent use for this
 

I added a Character Button onto my Persona Page, that toggles MainHUD.Character on/off

Here is the code i added

<Button LocalText="Character" Location="0,132" Name="CharacterButton" OnPress="parent.parent.parent.parent.Character.visible=(!parent.parent.parent.pa rent.Character.visible)" ScrollExtent="73,27" Size="73,27" Style="/t_Styles.DefaultButton">Character</Button>

I added this code right before

<Button LocalText="Cancel"......

this was done on the TabletsII UI so your spacing may be different

I'm happy to see ! reverses boolean values. Nice discovery!

Quib

That's the problem with these chaotic discovery threads... that was on top of page 2.

Bah! Figures, very nice to know though. Will try and keep ! in mind when working on stuff.

Quib

I haven't read through all of this thread but it just came to my attention this post... I was just thinking... heh (amazing I know)

There's another way to do IF statements in coding. Maybe there's some variation that'll work with the EQ2 XML...

I don't have anything to test it out... but maybe someone could try it.

Or maybe:

(I don't really have a grasp on where to use parenthasis in the EQ2 XML coding) *note* I dunno what's up with the random spaces, they're just showing that way /shrug

I'm pretty sure the spaces are a flaw in the [CODE} tag, every X number of characters on one line, it adds a space.

I haven't found EQ2 to use parenthesis in any rational or logical way. Half the time I can leave them out and they won't matter, and using them doesn't seem to change the order math calculations occur; an example:
value=((2+3)*4)
results in value being 14 (3 times 4 plus 2) instead of 20 (5 times 4).

At least this is what I encountered when I was making my Relative DPS Calculator.

Quib

I've only found parenthesis useful for letting the game know you mean a "variable" instead of the text that represents it.

Example: The text of the object Foo is "Your Mom"

parent.label.text=parent.Foo.text makes the label say "parent.Foo.text"

parent.label.text=(parent.Foo.text) makes the label say "Your Mom"

Or at least that's how I think it goes. I've always used the parenthesis after something didn't work without them, and I forget what.

I use (basically) parent.label.text=parent.Foo.text and my label text would always read Your Mom. If I wanted the label to show "parent.label.text=parent.Foo.text" I'd have to do parent.label.text='parent.Foo.text'

This is assuming this code is used in an OnEvent.

Quib

ok pardon my lack of knowledge, I try to pull what I can read and what I can see from examples to get the jist of things... lets see if I kinda get this...

If I wanted a button on a page that hides that page's parent and opens another page and its parent, would the following be on the right track?

OnPress="parent.playerstats.visible=false 'parent.Personatwo.visible=true'"

where the structure is like:
root>MainHUD>Persona>playerstats/Personatwo

and the button (and its reversed counterpart) is on the playerstats and Personatwo pages trying to hide playerstats and reveal Personatwo.

-Selae

Dump the apostrophes; you only need those if declaring a new value that contains spaces (like value='value with spaces'). Other than that, looks good to me.

Quib

So besides the whole parenthasis thing, did anyone try what I suggested?

Does anyone know if it's possible to get a second level of indirection? For example:
<Text Name="Foo">BLARG</Text>
...
OnPress="parent.Blarg.opacity=(parent.(parent.Foo.Text).opacity-0.05)"

I've not been able to make this work but I may be missing something. At least I hope I am.

Sixes

So far noone has gotten any form of concatination or nested variables working. This includes paths with variable segments.

In all tests I've run, it either reads the entire thing as a string with no variable interpritation at all, or it reads the first portion as a variable clipped where the second variable begins.