Thread: UI Possability?
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Unread 01-17-2008, 06:31 PM
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Originally Posted by gm9 View Post
You can't save directly, however you can POST via the browser. The UI can't read the db in realtime however, only once per session.
I was actually discussing this with Aerilik last night. We were talking about creating a new window property that would flag a window as "Dynamic". This would mean that the client watches the xml file for changes, and when a change occurs, re-reads the file and updates the values of controls.

This would open the possibility to some cool new mods but I'd need to discuss it with our technical lead and producers to get the OK. We probably add some restrictions, like a minimum amount of time between updates, so if you spam the file with changes it wont bog down the client. Also, I don't think we'd want to support adding and removing of controls because that would mean a lot of extra work for the client every time the file changes. However, the ability to update text values or UIDataSources and have the controls reload that data would be really cool.
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