CustomProperty Layout - horizontal row of radio buttons?

[Martin Chatterjee]

Hi there,

I'm working on the layout of a CustomProperty and would like to show a number of radio buttons in one horizontal line.

Creating the radioButtons via PPGLayout.AddEnumControl() works fine - however they always get shown as a column of radio buttons (one per line).

Is it possible to draw them one after the other in the same line?

Thanks in advance for any help/advice!

Cheers, Martin

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[Stefan Kubicek]

You can. Any item added to the layout between an oLayout.AddRow() and oLayout.EndRow()
will be rendered in a row without starting a new line, as long as there is enogh space.

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[Martin Chatterjee]

Stefan,

yeah I'm aware of AddRow() and EndRow() - unfortunately this does not help in this situation.

Essentially I am adding one item (a RadioButton Control with three options) and I want to align these three buttons in a single row (see below). 

Initially I thought there should be an attribute for this that I could set via PPGItem.SetAttribute() but I cannot find anything  that works...  

Any ideas?  Thanks in advance, Martin

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aItems = ["ONE", "ONE", "TWO", "TWO", "THREE", "THREE"]

oLay.AddRow()

oLay.AddEnumControl(myStringParam, aItems,  "label", constants.siControlRadio)

oLay.EndRow()

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[Stefan Kubicek]

You are using AddEnumControl with the siPPGControlType set to siControlRadio, right?
I haven't used this yet, but rather used a siControlIconList, but maybe the following will work in analogy for you too:
(Staright copy/paste from my code, sorry)

aUIitems = (CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuA.bmp", 0, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuB.bmp", 1, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuD.bmp", 3, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuC.bmp",2)
oMenuSelector = oLayout.AddEnumControl ("QuadSelector", aUIitems, "Quadrant", c.siControlIconList)

oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUINoLabel, True)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUIColumnCnt,2)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUILineCnt,2)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUISelectionColor,0x000ff)

Let me know if this worked.

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[Martin Chatterjee]

Stefan, 

thanks for your code snippet - however I'm afraid that siUIColumnCnt and siUILineCnt don't have any effect on radioButtons... Oh well, worth a try... ;-)

I'd still very much like to use radio buttons for this - anybody got an idea how to force them into one line?

Thanks in advance,

Martin

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[Stephen Blair]

HI Martin

I really don't think it is possible to get a horizontal layout for siControlRadio.

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Subject: Re: CustomProperty Layout - horizontal row of radio buttons?

Stefan,

thanks for your code snippet - however I'm afraid that siUIColumnCnt and siUILineCnt don't have any effect on radioButtons... Oh well, worth a try... ;-)

I'd still very much like to use radio buttons for this - anybody got an idea how to force them into one line?

Thanks in advance,

Martin
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On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Stefan Kubicek <s...@tidbit-images.com<mailto:s...@tidbit-images.com>> wrote:
You are using AddEnumControl with the siPPGControlType set to siControlRadio, right?
I haven't used this yet, but rather used a siControlIconList, but maybe the following will work in analogy for you too:
(Staright copy/paste from my code, sorry)

aUIitems = (CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuA.bmp", 0, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuB.bmp", 1, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuD.bmp", 3, CustomGFXFilesPath + "QMenu_MenuC.bmp",2)
oMenuSelector = oLayout.AddEnumControl ("QuadSelector", aUIitems, "Quadrant", c.siControlIconList)

oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUINoLabel, True)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUIColumnCnt,2)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUILineCnt,2)
oMenuSelector.SetAttribute(c.siUISelectionColor,0x000ff)

Let me know if this worked.

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[Martin Chatterjee]

Hi Stephen,

all right - thanks for the confirmation...  

Cheers, Martin

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