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Get label of the left side settings category ? - jurialmunkey - 2014-01-26
Hi,
I'm looking for something similar to Control.GetLabel(2) for settingscategory.xml, but for the left hand side grouplist (id=3)
e.g. When in appearance settings the categories are - skin, international, file lists, screensaver. I'm trying to get the label for what is currently selected in that grouplist. Control.GetLabel(2) returns the overall category (e.g. Appearance) but I want to get say for example 'international' if that is selected.
I've tried Control.GetLabel(3) and Control.GetLabel(10) [default category button] and Container(3).ListItem.Label but I can't figure anything out that works. It seems like I should be able to do it, but perhaps its not possible...
Any Ideas?
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - Hitcher - 2014-01-26
Not possible. What are you trying to do exactly?
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - `Black - 2014-01-26
Also tried that but it's not possible.
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - jurialmunkey - 2014-01-27
Ah that's a shame
@Hitcher - Its for a new skin I'm working on. I wanted to have a header such as: 'The International Settings for Appearance' so that I could hide the categories in a slide out menu. Also wanted to do a string match to change an icon in the header. Not the end of the world, but would have been a nice stylistic match for the rest of the skin...
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - jurialmunkey - 2014-02-06
@Black - I actually figured out a trick for this
For group id 3 I set a window property onfocus and ondown/onleft etc.
Code:
<onfocus>SetProperty(SettingLabel,$INFO[System.CurrentControl])</onfocus>
<ondown>SetProperty(SettingLabel,$INFO[System.CurrentControl])</ondown>Then I have a label variable like such
Code:
<value condition="!ControlGroup(5).HasFocus()">$INFO[System.CurrentControl]</value>
<value>$INFO[Window.Property(SettingLabel)]</value>Also, in the process of testing this I noticed that ControlGroup(3).HasFocus() doesn't work in SettingsCategory.xml, hence why I check controlgroup 5 instead.
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - `Black - 2014-02-06
Good to know, thanks for the tip.
RE: Get label of the left side settings category ? - jmarshall - 2014-02-07
Heh, nice hack
