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Getting GuiTSCtrl from subcontrols

by Orion Elenzil · in Torque Game Engine · 12/19/2005 (11:08 am) · 2 replies

I'm probably overlooking something obvious here,
maybe someone can point me in the right direction.

I have a GuiControl which wants access to its GuiTSCtrl parent (in onRender say)
but don't know how to get a handle to that parent.

ShapeNameHud does it seemingly by assuming that the ShapeNameHud control is the immediate child of a GuiTSCtrl, but i'd like to allow the control to be nested arbitrarily deep.

Something like this would be perfect:
GuiControl::GetKindOfParent(classID kind)
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
12/19/2005 (11:30 am)
Why not just do something like...

GuiTSCtrl *goal = NULL;
GuiControl *gc = this;
while(gc = gc->getParent())
   if(goal = dynamic_cast<GuiTSCtrl*>(gc))
      break;

if(goal) then we're in a valid situation!

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#2
12/19/2005 (12:16 pm)
Aha,
that looks perfect,
thanks ben.