How do you determine index number of a widget?

[jbuszkie]

I'm looking through the widget API's and I don't see anything that will return the widget position number.

say you have

   a
     b
        c
        d
        e
        f
     g
     h 
  i

and I want to insert a widget between G and H. I can search for A and make a child widget for it and specify 0 for the index.. but I want it between G and H. I can search for G... but how do I get it's index number so I can bump the index by one and insert my widget there using InsertWidgetChild?

Am I going to have to GetAllChildren and seach until I find G and remember how many I went through? That seems like a pain. Am I missing an API that will do this?

Thanks,

Jim "In STVi hell"

[nielm]

Originally Posted by jbuszkie

I'm looking through the widget API's and I don't see anything that will return the widget position number.

   a
     b
        c
        d
        e
        f
     g
     h 
  i

From memory:

Assume that you have found and have assigned widgets a,g and the new widget z to varibles...

get position of g in list of a's children:
  pos=FindElementIndex(GetWidgetChildren(a),g)
the insert the new widget as a child
  InsertWidgetChild(a,z,pos+1)

The thing you were missing is that the general API list modification functions (FilterBy*, GetElement, and FindElementIndex) can be used with widget lists

Good luck with the stvi And I agree with you abotu STVi hell, but is better than manually merging all changes at each version update

[jbuszkie]

Originally Posted by nielm

get position of g in list of a's children:
  pos=FindElementIndex(GetWidgetChildren(a),g)
the insert the new widget as a child
  InsertWidgetChild(a,z,pos+1)

The thing you were missing is that the general API list modification functions (FilterBy*, GetElement, and FindElementIndex) can be used with widget lists

Yeah.. That will work.. Duh! I forgot about the FindElementIndex! (well I haven't had to use it yet so I didn't think to look for it!!) Stupid me!

Good luck with the stvi And I agree with you abotu STVi hell, but is better than manually merging all changes at each version update

Is it though???

Thanks a bunch!

Jim