Vicevirtuoso
The Modetta Man
Can this be done? I've got a UI element which is part of the UnitPanel and uses a PullDown. Much of it gets cut off at the bottom of the screen, though.
UI: Making PullDowns expand upward instead of downward?
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whoward69
DLL Minion
In theory all you need to do is add a <GridData> element to override the standard droppy-down bit and change its anchor to "L,B".
However, you will run into all the Lua horrors of trying to correctly align the drop-down (see the last section of part 3 of my UI Tutorial)
However, you will run into all the Lua horrors of trying to correctly align the drop-down (see the last section of part 3 of my UI Tutorial)
Vicevirtuoso
The Modetta Man
whoward's UI Tutorial Part 3.5 said:
I think I should just take that as a sign
I guess the users can make do with the back and forward buttons I added to allow them to scroll through the options of the PullDown one-by-one.
whoward69
DLL Minion
Weird! I need to do exactly the same thing for a mod I'm writing for Civ:BE
But Civ:BE as an AutoFlip attribute on pull-downs, which I'm hoping will make them grow upwards if they would fall off the bottom of the screen
But Civ:BE as an AutoFlip attribute on pull-downs, which I'm hoping will make them grow upwards if they would fall off the bottom of the screen
whoward69
DLL Minion
Can't work out what AutoFlip does, but the code to "pop-up" rather than "drop-down" the menu is surprisingly simple
Not tried this with CivV, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. If you want to reverse the order of the items (so if they drop-down as A, B, C they would then pop-up as C, B, A (ie A will always be nearest to the menu control) you can add a <StackData> item with the growth set to Up rather than Bottom)
Code:
pullDown:CalculateInternals();
local offsetY = -(pullDown:GetSizeY() + pullDown:GetGrid():GetSizeY())
pullDown:GetGrid():SetOffsetVal(0, offsetY)Not tried this with CivV, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. If you want to reverse the order of the items (so if they drop-down as A, B, C they would then pop-up as C, B, A (ie A will always be nearest to the menu control) you can add a <StackData> item with the growth set to Up rather than Bottom)
Vicevirtuoso
The Modetta Man
It's been a while since I actually decided to test this out, but it worked perfectly. Thanks again!
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