Grid

[Dingodan]

It would be great if someone could make an addon with keybind for toggle to show an grid all over the screen to align addon ui's.
Like this

[skyraker]

I'm going to try to do something like this as a way to learn a little bit about textures and photo editing. I would assume it would encompass things like:

1. Getting current screen size
2. dividing screen by grid block size
3. dynamically creating required number of blocks
4. displaying grid as lowest possible layer
5. possibly allowing block size modification

As I said, the hard part for me will be actually getting a texture made right and put into the addon correctly. Most of the rest I shouldn't have as much problem on.

It's a project at least!

[sirinsidiator]

I know you want to learn about textures, but I imagine you could also use LineControl elements to achieve this.

[merlight]

Texture is actually the easy part, since you don't need any. Just make a texture control template:

<Texture name="GridLine" color="aa000000" layer="BACKGROUND" virtual="true">
   <Dimensions x="1" y="1" />
</Texture>

... and create as many as needed using ZO_ControlPool, and change width or height.

[skyraker]

Originally Posted by sirinsidiator I know you want to learn about textures, but I imagine you could also use LineControl elements to achieve this.

I thought about that too, but it still wants a texture for the line.

Originally Posted by merlight Texture is actually the easy part, since you don't need any. Just make a texture control template: <Texture name="GridLine" color="aa000000" layer="BACKGROUND" virtual="true">    <Dimensions x="1" y="1" /> </Texture> ... and create as many as needed using ZO_ControlPool, and change width or height.

I'll take a look at that too. As I said, I'm using this as sort of a learning exercise in texture creations and implementation, so creating a simple box wasn't something too time consuming to learn.

[skyraker]

Gah. I understand the concept of ControlPool, but I cannot seem to wrap my head around implementation. I see it called in different addons different ways and that gets confusing. I think what is getting me is what parameters it takes. Two examples from two addons:

ZO_ControlPool.New(self, "XRGACompassPin", ZO_CompassContainer, XRGA.AddonInfo.Prefix.."Pin")

self.container = GetControl(scrollContainer, "ScrollChild")
    self.checkboxPool = ZO_ControlPool:New("ZO_Options_Checkbox", self.container, "Checkbox")

So obviously self is the object the pool will be in. The first string object is the control (so in my case "GridLine"). The third parameter seems to be some container reference, though I cannot understand how that would apply to mine. The last parameter is the prefix for the ID of each object.

I guess that means I'm stuck on what container object I should use. Any thoughts?

[skyraker]

To follow on with seeing if I understand ControlPool:

So once I have to Pool I essentially want to maintain a table of created objects that are in use and a table of objects that have been released.

I use AcquireObject() to get/create a new control, place it in the table I created, modify it to what want and display it.

When the grid is 'disabled', I release all the objects back to the pool for the next use.