Transforming GUI elements outside constructor?

Scripting Issues
1

I have some absolute positions for DirectScrolledFrame elements and I don’t know how to set them.

“verticalScroll_incButton_pos” works in constructor, but not

frame['verticalScroll_incButton_pos']
2

Try:

frame.verticalScroll.incButton['pos']
3

Thanks. I think I understand how the more complex GUI classes store their individual components now.

Although I can just use setPos(), I get this error when I try assigning the position the dictionary way.

frame.verticalScroll.incButton['pos'] = (0,0,0)
Cannot configure initialisation option "pos" for DirectButton
4

Ah, you’re right. The [‘pos’] attribute is meant to be changed via setPos(), not by direct assignment.

David

5

Okay.
But why?

6

Honestly, I’m not entirely sure. The person who originally developed the DirectGui interface was largely inspired by the Python Mega-Widgets interface, which makes heavy use of this kind of assignment to properties. He was going for that same interface across-the-board in DiretGui, but I suspect he ran into some technical restrictions that forced a few exceptions here and there.

So, the resulting DirectGui interface is what it is. Several people over the years have taken stabs at providing an alternate gui; and we’ll be providing libRocket as part of the official build with 1.8.0.

David