UI Dropdown

Drop-down selector over a list of options.

Type: UIDropdownNode · Category: UI & Interface · Also found as: uidropdown

Properties

Property	Type	Default	Description
size	vec2	(360, 28)	Width and height (px). Range 4 to 1280.
label	string	"Select"	Caption shown next to the control.
selectedIndex	integer	0	Index of the selected item (-1 = none). Range 0 to 32.
defaultIndex	integer	0	Index restored by reset. Range 0 to 32.
labelWidth	number	130	Width reserved for the label (px); 0 = none. Range 0 to 300.
isOpen	boolean	false	List open now.

Plus the common properties every node has.

Lua methods

Call them on the node (self.node in its script, or self.node:get_node("path")). Every node also has the Node methods.

UIDropdownNode:connect(event, handler)

Connects a handler to one of this node’s events: value_changed (The value changed); the tree events; custom ones.

self.node:connect("value_changed", function(value, source) Log.info("value_changed") end)

• event UIDropdownNodeEvent|string
• handler fun(value: any, source: UIDropdownNode)

Returns integer id Connection id for disconnect

UIDropdownNode:get_property(path)

Reads an Inspector property by its path (vectors and colours as tables); “script.” reads a field of the node’s script.

local value = self.node:get_property("size")

• path UIDropdownNodeProperty|string

Returns any

UIDropdownNode:set_property(path, value, y)

Sets an Inspector property by its path: vectors as {x, y} or x, y; colours as {r, g, b[, a]} 0..1 or “#rrggbb[aa]”; enums by name; “script.” a field of the node’s script.

self.node:set_property("size", 100, 50)

• path UIDropdownNodeProperty|string
• value any
• y? number

In a scene file

{
  "type": "UIDropdownNode",
  "name": "UIDropdown",
  "position": [
    0,
    0
  ],
  "properties": {
    "size": [
      360,
      28
    ],
    "label": "Select",
    "selectedIndex": 0
  }
}