Lone Wolf Development Forums - Height of confusion ... or confusion of height

I'm having an issue with a character sheet layout. It's based on a table pick, but then I add extra text to it through a script, and this is confusing me in regards to how I can manage the height.

The concept I'm going for is that each character can pick from a list of schools of the art (supernatural predilections), and they can then pick certain disciplines associated with those schools.

For instance, I can pick the "Kinetic" school and the "Protective" school, then I can pick the "Hidden Hand" and "Skeleton Key" disciplines which are associated with the "Kinetic" school, and the "Line of Defense" discipline which is associated with the "Protective" school. I want this to show up on the character sheet as such:

Code:

Kinetic

 » Hidden Hand

 » Skeleton Key

Protective

 » Line of Defense

The problem is that each the number of disciplines each school can have is variable, which means the height of each table element is variable. If my position script includes the following line:

height = portal[name].height +10

...then each School will have the height of the first element, in this case "Kinetic", regardless of how many disciplines have been added. In this case, that means that "Protective" would have too much white space.

If I reversed it, and gave one discipline to "Kinetic" and two to "Protective", then the second discipline in "Protective" would be cut off.

I'm pasting my template code below, and I'm attaching a PDF that shows how things get cut off.

If anyone has any ideas, I'd appreciate the feedback.

Thanks.

Code:

  <template

    id="oSchPick"

    name="Output The Art Table"

    compset="School"

    marginvert="10">



    <portal

      id="name"

      style="outNormLt">

      <output_label>

              <labeltext><![CDATA[

             var schname as string

             var discipname as string

             var linkname as string

           var disciplvl as string

           var disciproll as number

                                        

             schname = field[name].text

                                  

             @text = schname

               foreach pick in hero from Discipline where "component.Discipline & !Hide.Discipline"

                  discipname = eachpick.field[name].text

                  disciplvl = eachpick.field[disLvlInit].text

                  disciproll = eachpick.field[disRoll].value

                  linkname = eachpick.linkage[dissch].field[name].text

              if (compare(schname,linkname) = 0) then

                    @text &= "{br} » " & discipname & " " & disciplvl & " " & disciproll

                    endif

                 nexteach

                 ]]></labeltext>

        </output_label>

      </portal>



    <!-- Portals used as the header -->

    <portal

      id="thearthdr"

      style="outTitle"

      isheader="yes">

      <output_label

        text="The Art">

        </output_label>

      </portal>



    <position><![CDATA[

      var thirdwidth as number

      

      ~our height is driven by the tallest portal (they're all the same)

      height = portal[name].height +10

      

      ~Calculate 1/3 of available width to account for three portals,

      ~   each with it's own column, with a padding of 6 between each.

      thirdwidth = (width-12)/3

      thirdwidth = round(thirdwidth,0,0)

      doneif (issizing <> 0)

              

      ~setup appropriate widths for the various value portals

      portal[name].width = thirdwidth

                        

      ~center everything vertically within the template

      perform portal[name].centervert



      ~perform portal[name].alignedge[left,0]

      ]]></position>



    <header><![CDATA[

      ~our header height is the title plus a gap plus the header text

      ~height = portal[thearthdr].height

      ~width = (width-12)/3

      doneif (issizing <> 0)



      ~our title spans the full width of the name portal

      portal[thearthdr].width = portal[name].width

      ]]></header>

    </template>