Tip: ImageClips widgets in RTCompounds

[rray]

This tip might be useful when you're creating a custom render tree compound with a Property Page that is built using PPGLogic code (which is a useful option for dynamic layouts or optical layout tweaks).

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oLayout.AddItem("tex", "Image",  siControlImageClip);

as mentioned in the docs doesn't work, the Image clip widget is disabled. Use

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oLayout.AddItem("tex", "Image",  "ImageBrowserItem.ImageBrowserItem.1");

instead (stolen from GLSL Actor Envelope compound)

(Some other widget ids that might be useful in compounds from gppgcmdlauncherctrl.dll)
LightListParamItem.LightListParamItem.1 3DMapButtonDivot.3DMapButtonDivot.1 ImageBrowserItem.ImageBrowserItem.1 3DConnection.3DConnection.1 SRTTexture.SRTTexture.1 CnxServerEditor.CnxServerEditor.1 TextureSpaceItem.TextureSpaceItem.1 ParType.ParType.1 ImageClipBrowserItem.ImageClipBrowserItem.1 JJitNumber.JitNumber.1 ParTypeList.ParTypeList.1 ExternalFilesWidget.ExternalFilesWidget.1 ImageClipViewer.ImageClipViewer.1 ReferenceWidget.ReferenceWidget.1 iconlistwidget.iconlistwidget.1 3DPickAndConnect.3DPickAndConnect.1 bitmapwidget.bitmapwidget.1 FileEditWidget.FileEditWidget.1 ChannelsWidget.ChannelsWidget.1 EventSource.EventSource.1 EventObstacle.EventObstacle.1 ImageFormatChooser.ImageFormatChooser.1 MultipleFilesWidget.MultipleFilesWidget.1 RefModelEventWidget.RefModelEventWidget.1 ComboWithCallbackWidget.ComboWithCallbackWidget.1 TextureLayerPortWidget.TextureLayerPortWidget.1 RenderChannelListWidget.RenderChannelListWidget.1 FramebufferListWidget.FramebufferListWidget.1 TextEditor.TextEditor.1
MappingGridWidget.MappingGridWidget.1 ArrayControlsWidget.ArrayControlsWidget.1 ArrayItemDivot.ArrayItemDivot.1 ArrayListWidget.ArrayListWidget.1 LightProfileWidget.LightProfileWidget.1 ICEAttributeWidget.ICEAttributeWidget.1 ICEStringWidget.ICEStringWidget.1 PreferencesWidget.PreferencesWidget.1 InstanceGroup.InstanceGroup.1 FCurveWidget.FCurveWidget.1 synopticwidget.synopticwidget.1

[scaron]

are these usable outside of compounds? i mean let say i am using the ShaderDefinition API?

[Hirazi Blue]

Could just be me (=old man), but "color=#aaaaaa" seems
nearly unreadable under the admittedly lesser used "subsilver2" color scheme.
But you guessed it: I use it...

It's a problem I still haven't gotten around to, we should probably define a list of colors
readable/usable and thus "safe" in both color schemes.

[rray]

Also there's the alternating background color for each scheme ... from a 1st test the top 2 rows of each color block seem to work for both, and grey doesn't work at all

[rray]

Steven, I have to confess I never worked with the Shader Definition API but these IDs are used in SPDL as well, so my guess is that they should work with all kinds of ways of building the PPG.