Ignition / ScrollBox

Namespace Playniax.Ignition.UI

Inherits from MonoBehaviour

Script can be found in Assets/Playniax/Framework/Ignition/Framework/UI/Scripts (MonoBehaviour)/ScrollBox.cs

Class ScrollBox

Description

The scrollbox supports text, url links and images and it has its own scripting language.

Public fields	Description
`TextAsset externalScript`	The external script file to use for content generation.
`bool useExternalScript`	Flag indicating whether to use an external script for content generation.
`string start`	The starting position within the scroll box.
`string dataBreak = "&"`	The character used to break data fields within the script.
`string lineBreak = "\|"`	The character used to break lines within the script.
`bool allCaps = false`	Flag indicating whether to convert text to all capital letters.
`AssetBank assetBank`	The asset bank to use for content generation.
`GameObject content`	The container for scroll box content.
`float contentHeight`	The height of the scroll box content.

Public Methods	Description
`GameObject Contains(string value)`	Returns GameObject if it contains value.
`void SetPosition(string value)`	Sets the scrollbox position by value.

See ScrollBox Scripting for a more in-depth explanation.

Example

Example can be found in Assets/Playniax/Framework/Ignition/Examples/02 - Framework UI/01 - Scrollbox/Scenes/Scrollbox Tabs.unity

Example script can be found in Assets/Playniax/Framework/Ignition/Examples/02 - Framework UI/01 - Scrollbox/Scripts (MonoBehaviour)/SetPosition_Example.cs


using UnityEngine;
using UnityEngine.UI;

namespace Playniax.Ignition.UI.Examples
{

    public class SetPosition_Example : MonoBehaviour
    {
        public string text;
        public Button button;
        public ScrollBoxSwipe scrollBoxSwipe;
 
        void Awake()
        {
            // Below some fancy code to assign the component variables:

            // Try to find ScrollBoxSwipe component in the scene.
            if (scrollBoxSwipe == null) scrollBoxSwipe = FindObjectOfType<ScrollBoxSwipe>();

            // Try to find the button.
            if (button == null) button = GetComponent<Button>();

            // Add a listener for detecting button click.
            if (button && scrollBoxSwipe && text != "") button.onClick.AddListener(OnClick);
        }

        void OnClick()
        {
            // Stop scrolling.
            scrollBoxSwipe.Stop();
            // Set scroll position using the button text as keyword.
            if (scrollBoxSwipe.scrollBox) scrollBoxSwipe.scrollBox.SetPosition(text);
        }
    }
}