How to limit the size of cyclic filed in skill

Hi,

As Andrew replied you in How to add some polygon (box) in hiCreateAppForm

You should try hiCreateLayoutForm and associated functions hiCreateFormLayout, hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout, hiCreateHorizontalBoxLayout, hiCreateGridLayout

Those are more flexible than hiCreateAppForm and might be able to do what you want:

Here is a little example:

(hiDisplayForm
 (hiCreateLayoutForm 'example_form "Example"
   (hiCreateFormLayout 'main_layout ?items (list
       (hiCreateLabel ?name 'test_label ?labelText "Hello World!")
       (hiCreateCyclicField ?name 'cyclic ?choices '("Very long string..." "Test" "Another choice"))
       ))
   ?buttonLayout 'Close
   ?dialogStyle 'modeless ;'modal
   ))

Hope this helps,
Cheers
Aurel

Hi,

As Andrew replied you in How to add some polygon (box) in hiCreateAppForm

You should try hiCreateLayoutForm and associated functions hiCreateFormLayout, hiCreateVerticalBoxLayout, hiCreateHorizontalBoxLayout, hiCreateGridLayout

Those are more flexible than hiCreateAppForm and might be able to do what you want:

Here is a little example:

(hiDisplayForm
 (hiCreateLayoutForm 'example_form "Example"
   (hiCreateFormLayout 'main_layout ?items (list
       (hiCreateLabel ?name 'test_label ?labelText "Hello World!")
       (hiCreateCyclicField ?name 'cyclic ?choices '("Very long string..." "Test" "Another choice"))
       ))
   ?buttonLayout 'Close
   ?dialogStyle 'modeless ;'modal
   ))

Hope this helps,
Cheers
Aurel

Aurel,

Not sure why yours is truncated - for me the text is fully shown with the example you've given.

I'm not aware of a way of limiting the maximum size of a cyclic field. That said, I've never wanted to do so...

Andrew

Sorry, the ?initialSize argument is missing in my example

But my point was just that using layouts, I believe truncating the field is achievable

It might require nested layouts with spacer and stretch items as well to get a specific result

And I agree it seems like an odd request to me 

Thank you for replying.

I have curious that why size of cyclic field does not be adjustable like 'hiCreateStringField'.

hiCreateStringField is easy to be adjustable when putting it form, like below

  list(formStringFiled   020:095 290:030 90)  --- this element of ?fields in tabField(hiCreateTablField)

  the '290' could be the size of its field.

But,  even the 'cyclicFiled' is listed on ?Fileds like 'StringFiled' but its size can't be adjustable...

I tried what you told me, but the size of cyclic field is limited by the main window size. it means, if the size of main window is enough large, the size of cyclic filed also be largened.

I think it's historical - I'm not really sure why.

You could use a combo box instead (which is a newer field type) - this does allow you to constrain the width with 2D forms:

(hiDisplayForm
 (hiCreateAppForm 
   ?name 'exampleForm
   ?formTitle "Example Form"
   ?fields (list
     (list
       ;(hiCreateCyclicField ?name 'cyclic ?choices '("Very long string..." "Test" "Another choice" "A really long string with many characters and so on") ?prompt "test")
       (hiCreateComboField ?name 'cyclic ?items '("Very long string..." "Test" "Another choice" "A really long string with many characters and so on") ?editable nil ?prompt "test" ?defValue "Very long string...")
       0:0 200:30 90)
       )
   ?buttonLayout 'Close
   ;?dialogStyle 'modeless ;'modal
   ))

Andrew

Hi, 

You might have better results using Andrew's solution with combo box fields.
But I made some trials and they might give you hints :

(hiDisplayForm
 (hiCreateLayoutForm 'example_form "Example"
   (hiCreateFormLayout 'main_layout ?items (list
       (hiCreateLabel ?name 'test_label ?labelText "Hello World!")
       (hiCreateHorizontalBoxLayout 'h_layout ?items (list
           (list (hiCreateCyclicField ?name 'cyclic ?choices '("Very long string..." "Test" "Another choice")) 'stretch 0)
           ;'(spacer_item 10)
           ;'(stretch_item 10)
           (list (hiCreateSeparatorField ?name 'separator) 'stretch 1)
           ))
       ))
   ?buttonLayout 'Close
   ?dialogStyle 'modeless ;'modal
   ;?initialSize '(130 94)
   ))

You can see that the cyclic field has two degrees of stretchability. The field itself can be compressed and extended until it reaches its maximum size then the stretch 0 takes over and the separator becomes stretched instead.

I believe you will not be able to bypass this double stretch mechanism for the cyclic fields (probably inherited from a Qt construction)

I'll be nicely surprised if you prove me wrong

I let the spacer_item and stretch_item commented so you have an example of how to use them in case you were not already aware

Hope this helps

Cheers,

Aurélien