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fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:29 PM

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Okay, so it's like
W_Panel
W_Buttons and when buttons are created they communicate to W_Panel

elder coral Jan 20, 2025, 10:29 PM

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The delegate I have inside of the button and I call it on the buttons click

fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:30 PM

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Delegate is Event Dispatcher?

elder coral Jan 20, 2025, 10:30 PM

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Yes

fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:31 PM

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Okay, so each button has it's own Delegate and On Click you Call Delegate

elder coral Jan 20, 2025, 10:31 PM

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Then I just loop over an array of buttons, call their "set visual inactive" and then use the button that fired the event and set that to highlighted

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Correct

fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:32 PM

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but the looping is inside the button? you just add the same time call to the ''parent'' to get array of all buttons?

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because each individual button needs info about how many buttons there are

elder coral Jan 20, 2025, 10:33 PM

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The looping is inside of the parent, otherwise the buttons need to know about each other which is inconvinient imo

fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:35 PM

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hmm, so what is blocking me on just moving literally everything to the parent ? like

This is in the button:
On Click -> <Get Parent> Set Button (this button as ref) > All logic here (get array, clear all highlight from buttons on complete set highlight on this button)

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and that doesn't need event dispatcher? or i'm missing something

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Set Button would be event inside Parent

elder coral Jan 20, 2025, 10:38 PM

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Nothing ever stops you from just making shit public and doing it elsewhere, it makes sense in a few cases but a lot of times you put things where they make sense

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On Click -> <Get Parent> Set Button (this button as ref) > All logic here (get array, clear all highlight from buttons on complete set highlight on this button)
The part that I use the event dispatcher for is getting a reference to the button that I need to highlight, if you can figure out a smart way go for that instead

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This is just a quick way I've done it without it being complicated at all and very quick to implement

fresh escarp Jan 20, 2025, 10:41 PM

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Ok, got it, i just associate event dispatchers with bindings the events and calling and i dont fully get the concept, hoped this would be iexample iwould I got it, but I guess it's more like a concept of delegates and not really event dispatcher thing used to the fullest

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