[SOLVED] Forward Slash Not Being Recognized in Window Name

[kabbotta]

I'm using CEGUI with my Ogre3d project, and I'm having a problem where names that are defined using the forward slash pattern, such as:

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name="Root/HealthBar"

are not being recognized as valid names when I try to access them from in code. I know everything is working fine, because if I take the / out of the name, then it recognizes things just fine. Did I mess up the formatting of my strings somehow in the XML file?

[lucebac]

When getting windows via parent->getChild("name") the "/" in the window name is something like a path separator on a filesystem:
getChild("win_a/win_b") means "get win_b that is (direct) child of win_a"

Therefore: don't use forward slashes in window names!

The solution for your problem would be to just create some widget named "Healthbar" and add it to the "Root" widget.

[kabbotta]

Ah, thanks for clearing that up so fast. I must have been reading some old documentation, because I swore that I read people used the forward slash naming convention to avoid conflicts. I like the way it actually works much better than that anyway!