W_Container

This widget is responsible for holding both the tile widgets and item widgets and also acts as a proxy for the component to access any tile widgets or item widgets.

The component (AC_Inventory) should not rely on these widgets at all for any data for its functions, like I mentioned at the start of this documentation.

Even though there are ContainerSettings inside of these, they are immediately overridden by the component when created. They are mainly used as a fallback default, used for previewing how the container will look or used to bind the widgets to a specific container in a component. I recommend looking at the comment on GetContainerSettings.

To reduce the work for everyone when modifying containers, W_Container has a function (GetContainerSettings) to get the ContainerSettings straight from the component it belongs to. This way you do not have to update the ContainerSettings for the widget every time the container is modified in any way and also allows designers to make children of W_Container and still have access to the same data as other children.

TileSize refers to how large you want your tile widgets to be. Ideally both dimensions should be the same to minimize stretching. If you decide to not have the dimensions 1:1, your item icons will have to accommodate for your new icon ratio. Yclamp refers to when you want the scroll bar to appear. This should be (Your Tile Y Size) * (How many Y tiles you want until the scroll bar appears) So if I want mine to appear after 8 tiles while my container is 10 tiles tall and my tile Y size is 60, I would do 8*60.

TileClass and ItemClass are the default classes used to create the widgets for each instance of a container. It is recommended to try and keep these the same where ever your containers are to try and maintain consistent visuals through out your game.

DA_CoreItem has a override map, where if the current containers class is found in that map, it'll then use the item widget in that map instead of the assigned ItemClass. This could be useful for when a special item needs it own item widget.

Last updated