Adding Widgets to Screen | The Fabric Project | Page 1

novel fiber Jun 20, 2024, 6:41 PM

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Hi, I'm trying to add a DirectionalLayoutWidget to my Screen using addDrawableChild() inside init(), but I'm getting a weird error.
The code is:

test.add(new TextWidget(Text.of("test 1"), MinecraftClient.getInstance().textRenderer));
test.add(new TextWidget(Text.of("test 2"), MinecraftClient.getInstance().textRenderer));
addDrawableChild(test);```
The error I get is: 
```Required type: T
Provided: DirectionalLayoutWidget
reason: no instance(s) of type variable(s) exist so that DirectionalLayoutWidget conforms to Element```
What should I do to fix this issue?

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 6:43 PM

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what mc version?

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oh nvm that doesn't

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DirectionalLayoutWidget doesn't meet the constraints imposed in addDrawableChild

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:45 PM

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you dont use layouts like that

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 6:46 PM

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yeah what these layout widgets do is position the elements within them. you then need to manually render those elements

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:46 PM

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test.forEachChild(this::addDrawableChild);

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 6:46 PM

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exactly this ^

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:48 PM

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initTabNavigation override

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that yarn name is so bad 🙂

novel fiber Jun 20, 2024, 6:51 PM

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Well that is not really intuitive now is it.

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but then how should I use the Widget for them to be side by side? kinda tought this is what it would do..

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:55 PM

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do you have override for that initTabNavigation?

novel fiber Jun 20, 2024, 6:55 PM

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can't say I do

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:56 PM

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you have to call that method too (after that forEachChild line)

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 6:57 PM

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hmm i don't do that though, things work well for me.

novel fiber Jun 20, 2024, 6:58 PM

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dim hazel do you have override for that initTabNavigation?

and what would my overide for that method need to look like?

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 6:58 PM

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also call test.refreshPositions before forEach line

dim hazel Jun 20, 2024, 6:58 PM

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shrewd gorge also call `test.refreshPositions` before forEach line

you need that in initTabNavigation

novel fiber Jun 20, 2024, 7:01 PM

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Well I don't need to overide initTabNavigation if it will only call refreshPositions do I?

shrewd gorge Jun 20, 2024, 7:02 PM

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try and see ~ i don't override it Clueless

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