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Hi, I'm having trouble setting the selection mode of a MultiColumnList
In Demo7 you have:


I'm trying to create my window layout using XML. The window creates, but I can't select any of the items. I've tried putting in multiple

in the XML, but this doesn't help. I've also put multiple calls to setSelectionMode in my code, and that does nothing.

I don't see any event wiring in the demo code, so I assume it is supposed to be handled by the MultiListBox object.

For reference, I'm using CEGUI that I got from CVS at beta-1-root (or something similar). It was before you merged the changes back into HEAD. So my CEGUI is undoubtedly out-of-date, but I don't currently have time to update and fix everything, kinda actually got something due today that this is stopping.

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OR they are selecting just fine, but because I'm using CEGUI::ListboxTextItem, the line
doesn't get called.. so I'm selecting, but can't see it.
Yup, that was it. setSelectionColour didn't work, though, but I don't think I've seen any of the Colour functions work (background colour etc).
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I'm not sure I understand what you mean when you say the 'setSelectionBrushImage' method does not get called; you're supposed to call that yourself when you initialise the ListboxTextItem, same as for the colour setting.

What colour setting functions do not work btw, as far as I know they all work.

Thanks for the patch on sf.net I'll do that today, and also fix a couple of other bugs in the MCL.

CE.

It doesn't get called because I didn't know I was supposed to call it. I just hadn't looked at the constructor of the ListBoxTextItem derived class you were using.

Off the top of my head, the one for the MCL didn't work. I can't find the function in my copy of the API docs right now, so I can't tell you the name. As I said, my CVS was from before you branched it, so I can't imagine what has been fixed since.

Your welcome on the patch. Just was one I came across so I thought I'd share.

Yeah, I gotta get some additional documentation written. A lot of these more subtle things are not apparent from reading the API reference.

I'll look into the colour setting issue on the MCL (I don't think I fixed that specifically).