Example for deriving from ListboxItem?

cyberjunk · Postby **cyberjunk** » Wed Jan 22, 2014 17:13

Dear readers,

I've already figured out how to create a fully customized ItemEntry with all kind of combined childwindows for use in ItemListbox, the wiki example for the checkbox was quite helpful.
It was confusing with both these Listbox types and their different itemtypes at first, but I'm past that confustion now :-)

Now I'm trying to figure out how to create a custom ListboxItem (like ListboxTextItem) for use in Listbox and MultiColumnList.
It seems to me this variant is quite more low-level implented, e.g. there is no easy way to just "reuse" or attach existing child widgets (checkboxes, editboxes, ..) to it, right?

I've gone through the code of ListboxItem and ListboxTextItem and I've created my own class deriving from ListboxItem.
I had to at least implement the abstract methods draw(...) and getPixelSize().
Now my code compiles but I'm a bit stuck how to implement the mentioned methods correctly to show up a checkbox, an image, an editbox and so on and to make them even interactable to the user.

Is there any example how to create a more custom ListboxItem for ListBox/MultiColumnList?
It makes me sad to see this wonderful MultiColumnList widget being stuck with just the simple ListboxTextItem :-(

Postby **Ident** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 06:09

We are aware of the problem of having those different classes of items... an optimal solution would be to only use one type of class ( and its derivatives like the -Text- version) for lists. However, none of us has yet started changing this. If you want to you can try to add the necessary changes yourself, and adapt the existing widgets to all use an improved unified item class (ItemEntry is the latest class i think), we can then try to integrate it into CEGUI if it meets the code conventions and works flawlessly.

Now to help you with your request: ItemEntry allows adding children. ListboxItem doesn't and i do not think it is currently possible to add windows to it.

cyberjunk · Postby **cyberjunk** » Fri Jan 24, 2014 17:41

ItemEntry allows adding children. ListboxItem doesn't and i do not think it is currently possible to add windows to it.

Yes. Using a customized ItemEntry class and ItemListbox is highly customizable and my preferred solution so far.
It allows you to define any childwindows/widgets in the ItemEntry, so you can just assemble them together from the existing window/widgettypes (buttons, labels, editboxes, ...)

Also I've figured out that in case you need a grid and you want it to have more custom cells than you get get from MultiColumnList and its ListboxTextItem:
Just use "GridLayoutContainer". It also allows adding existing/custom windows/widgets to "cells" like ItemEntry does.

It's missing few things related to the headercells of MultiColumnList (sorting/reordering) tho, but it's sufficient for my requirements...

Postby **Ident** » Sat Jan 25, 2014 04:02

I am not sure what exactly it does but there is an AutoPositioning feature - I assume if you overload it you can define a custom way to position (reorder) the elements on request. But I am not 100% sure, i never use this feature.

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