Auto-cast boolean properties when used in DimOperators

[pav]

As the title says, it'd be nice if boolean properties could be cast to floats (0 / 1) when used inside/with a DimOperator. Forgive me if my request happens to be invalid; the project is pretty big and I might have missed something.

This would help when creating WidgetLooks that have children that can be hidden/shown and the layout of the parent depends on their visibility.

A short example to demonstrate this:

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<WidgetLook name="sketch/hscroll">
   <PropertyLinkDefinition name="DecButtonVisible" initialValue="True" widget="__auto_decbtn__" targetProperty="Visible" redrawOnWrite="true" layoutOnWrite="true" />
...
   <NamedArea name="ThumbTrackArea">
      <Area>
         <Dim type="LeftEdge">
            <WidgetDim widget="__auto_decbtn__" dimension="RightEdge">
               <DimOperator op="Multiply">
                  <PropertyDim name="DecButtonVisible" />      <!-- This fails at the moment -->
               </DimOperator>
            </WidgetDim>
         </Dim>
...


You could say that I could just set the property to "1" instead of "True" but then the PropertyLinkDefinition to a boolean property breaks.

[CrazyEddie]

I can appreciate the issue(s) this presents. Though I can give no estimates as to when any additions are likely to make it into the lib, please add the request to the mantis tracker here: http://www.cegui.org.uk/mantis/

Thanks

CE.

[pav]

please add the request to the mantis tracker

Done, thank you.