UI Floaters

This is a first stab and documenting the current xml file format as used in the Second LIfe viewer. Its not meant to be pretty, just useful (I hope).

The only conventions I can find defined on the wiki are as follows:

Widget Options

You will see the following information in XML files as you go. Here's what all the options mean.

Name

• name="SuperWidget" // name of the widget. You will use this name in the code to identify your widget when you need it

Control Name

• control_name="DebugSetting" // Allows you to instantly tie a widget to Debug_Settings without writing any code. Very useful.

Width and Height

• width="100" // sets the width of the widget to be 100 pixels
  • Note: This is the entire width of the widget, not just the label.
• height="20" // sets the height of the widget to be 20 pixels
  • Note: This is the entire width of the widget, not just the label.

Left

• left="10" // sets the horizontal position of the left edge of the widget to be 10 pixels from the left edge of the panel or floater
• left_delta="100" // sets the horizontal position of the left edge of the widget to be 100 pixels from the left edge of previously listed widget
  • Note: Use left *or* left_delta, never both.

Bottom

• bottom="300" // sets the vertical position of the bottom edge of the widget to be 300 pixels from the bottom edge of the panel or floater
• bottom="-30" // sets the vertical position of the bottom edge of the widget to be 30 pixels from the top edge of the panel or floater
• bottom_delta="-30" // sets the vertical position of the bottom edge of widget to be 30 pixels from the bottom edge of previously listed widget
  • Note: Use bottom *or* bottom_delta, never both.

• • • Note: All floaters, panels and widgets appear to accept these, so I will simply refer to them as "coordinates" rather than spell them out for each file.