Thread: EntityControl

So, EntityControl's fields are:

/eval for k, v in pairs(Turbine.UI.Lotro.EntityC ontrol) do Turbine.Shell.WriteLine(k); end

Constructor
SetContextMenuEnabled
SetEntity
GetEntity
SetSelectionEnabled
IsSelectionEnabled
IsContextMenuEnabled

Stretching an EntityControl over something you'd previously been RegisterForClickHandling, and then SetEntitying the EntityControl seems to work perfectly fine.

Hi Moebius,

I'm not really sure how to use the EntityControl. Can you provide an explanation of what you mean by stretching an entity control over something?

If I have a label on in a window, would I:
(a) Create the control
(b) set the parent to the same window as the label
(c) change the size of it so that it covers the label
(d) se the z-order so that its "on top" of the label

Then it can get click events. Is that what's its used for? If not - what the heck is it ?


Thanks in advance,

Kamindra

Say originally I had a window w of size x,y and an entity e which I was doing e:RegisterForClickHandling(w). Now I'd have to do:

ec = Turbine.UI.Lotro.EntityControl ();
ec:SetParent(w);
ec:SetPosition(0, 0);
ec:SetSize(x, y);
ec:SetMouseVisible(true);
ec:SetEntity(e);
ec:SetSelectionEnabled(true);
ec:SetContextMenuEnabled(true) ;

Thanks for this

If we use this approach in association with an Item, can we now grab the right click events for it?


Kam

Honestly? Not a clue. Up until this update I'd thought RegisterForClickHandling was an Actor thing, not an Entity thing, so it never even occurred to me to try it on items.