SettingsCategory - get labels
#1
I want to do something different with the group 3 stuff and would really like to be able to get the labels but Control.GetLabel(-100) doesn't return anything.

Is there a way to retrieve these controls?

ie ControlGroup(3).GetLabel(-100)

Or am I just going to have to revert to showing the actual strings with visible conditions?

Thanks.
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#2
What do you want to achieve exactly? I also tried to get the label of the group but it seems impossible.
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#3
I'd like a horizontal wraplist that's centrally focused. Rolleyes
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#4
Well, you don't know how many there are in each category, so even if you could get them (which I presume you probably can) you'd need to know how many there are anyway, though I guess you could check for empty labels or something.

Control.GetLabel(-100) is what you want - not sure whether it'll go through or not though!
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#5
(2012-03-23, 00:31)Hitcher Wrote: I'd like a horizontal wraplist that's centrally focused. Rolleyes

I have tried something like that (tried using horizontal grouplist with 3 items) but I did not like navigation when spincontrol is active in grouplist="5". I.e. with buttons, pressing right would move focus to new section, but with spincontrol you move to "texturedown" first, which I found a bit annoying and confusing.

Maybe it's just me.
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#6
(2012-03-23, 00:56)jmarshall Wrote: Control.GetLabel(-100) is what you want - not sure whether it'll go through or not though!

First thing I tried and it doesn't return anything - is it because it's a negative or something else?

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#7
Yeah, that's exactly the issue.

Not sure how to best handle this - I'm not sure if a container can give everything needed to operate things. Will ponder.

Cheers,
Jonathan
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#8
Update: I've managed to by-pass the hard-coded default control using <onload>Control.SetFocus(7000)</onload> so my wraplist gets focus and I've manually filled the labels because GetLabel doesn't work but I've now stumbled upon another problem - I can't get the wraplist to control the grouplist and change the sections.

Neither Control.Move or Control.Message work.

Ideas?

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#9
Use grouplist for nav and send control.move to wraplist? Hide grouplist off screen or with fade anim.
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Amber
Quartz

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#10
Already tried that but the grouplist can't/wont send them.
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#11
It only works with a script, I made a very simple one for my skin.
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#12
Thanks, I'll give it a go.
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#13
(2012-03-23, 20:06)Hitcher Wrote: Already tried that but the grouplist can't/wont send them.

It does send for me, on home screen at least. Haven't tried with system one.

Uuops, I stand corrected. I'm using grouplist but control.move is sent by container inside it.
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#14
@pecinko: They only work when you get to the ends - in-between they do nothing.

@black: As above, it only worked when I reached the ends so I made a button that controlled both the grouplist (via your script) and the wraplist and it all works. Laugh

Many thanks.

EDIT: It's a shame we can't swap these grouplists for normal lists if we want.
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#15
Why do we need a script to move the grouplist when Control.Move should do the job?

Thanks.
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