Trouble with WindowInfo(win,6)

Posted by Oligo on Sun 31 Mar 2013 07:55 PM — 5 posts, 22,978 views.

Oligo Sun 31 Mar 2013 07:55 PM #0

WindowInfo(win,6) seems to always return false.

Once I create a window, regardless if the window is visible or hidden, it always seems to return false.

Could be programmer error or misuse, but if I debug and do like

print(tostring(WindowInfo(win,6)))

it always seems to evaluate to false and in logical if/then constructs.

I'm using MUSH 4.84.

Fiendish USA Global Moderator Sun 31 Mar 2013 08:32 PM #1

The "show" flag (info 5, not 6) is whether you want the window shown. Infotype 6 is whether it had to be temporarily hidden. This only applies to position codes 5, 7, 9, 11.

http://www.mushclient.com/scripts/doc.php?function=WindowInfo

Oligo Sun 31 Mar 2013 09:08 PM #2

Ok thnx. I will play around with this.

I just wanted to programmatically determine of the miniwindow was displayed or not.

So it seems I would do a logical test like the following?


if (WindowInfo(win,5)) then
  print("window is displayed")
else
  print("window is not displayed")
end

Nick Gammon Australia Forum Administrator Sun 31 Mar 2013 11:01 PM #3

As Fiendish said, WindowInfo(win,5) gives you whether or not you want it shown. Under certain circumstances (especially using automatic positioning) it might not be shown even if you wanted it shown.

Oligo Sun 31 Mar 2013 11:40 PM #4

Thanks for the help, WindowInfo(win,5) was what I needed.