Get value of portal within a template.

[BoomerET]

This is for my Castles & Crusades plugin (ruleset?)

I have a tab that displays a characters abilities and senses.

One of these abilities is 'Weapon Specialization', which has a chooser where the player chooses which weapon to specialization.

I need to access this in another tab, and I can't believe it's causing me so much grief considering what I've accomplished so far with Hero Lab.

The template ID: chClPick
Portal within that template ID: weapSpec

Please help!!


BoomerET

[Mathias]

Please clarify what you're trying to accomplish. I'm not sure what you're trying to do.

[BoomerET]

I have a chooser table:

<portal
    id="weapSpec"
    style="chsNormal"
    width="120">
    <chooser_table
      component="WeaponBase"
      choosetemplate="LargeItem">
      <chosen><![CDATA[
        if (@ispick = 0) then
          @text = "{text clrwarning}Select Weapon"
        else
          @text = field[name].text
          endif
        ]]></chosen>
      <titlebar><![CDATA[
        @text = "Choose the weapon for your character"
        ]]></titlebar>
      </chooser_table>
   </portal>

This portal is within the template:

<template
    id="chClPick"
    name="Ability Pick"
    compset="ClassAbil"
    marginhorz="3"
    marginvert="2">

I'm trying to get the item that the user selected from the chooser.

I'm doing this in a different tab from where the selection is being made.


BoomerET

[Mathias]

Why not just add a new table whose list expression will mean that the selected item gets shown there? That way, you're displaying to the user the selection that's been made.

[BoomerET]

It's already being shown on the other tab, I need to add a display of +1, +2 or 0 based on the selection. (Depending on the PC's level)

Just because the user has chosen it as a specialization, it doesn't necessarily mean he owns that particular weapon.

[BoomerET]

Yup, going to have to do it another way, because the way I'm doing it, it populates the weapon chosen for specialization automatically in the armor/weapons tab.

That's not the results I'm after, so going to have to do it like you suggested of course.

[BoomerET]

Just finished that little bit, and it's working great.

No idea why I got stuck for two days trying to figure something out that wasn't going to work the way I had it.


Baby steps!


BoomerET

[Mathias]

Drop-down menus create a link to something.

Choosers add that thing to the character.

I'm guessing that was the confusion?

[BoomerET]

Thanks for the help Mathias, I'm sure as time goes on I'll have more of course.

I can't believe I'm still working on this though. Usually projects I end up getting bored after a few days to a week, but I've been working on this for months (a year?).

I did take a break for a few months at Christmas, but I'm back and plugging away.

One of the users of my plugin (ok, so what do we call them?) is a Beta backer of Realm Works, and was curious how my plugin interacted.

Well, it works awesome. I have some work to do on the stat block, but I'm very pleased with the outcome.


BoomerET