isUIContext: Difference between revisions

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Description:: Returns true if the script originated from some UI control event, for example from "onButtonDown" EH. Exists within parent scope and immediate child scopes.
Groups:: Uncategorised

Example 1:: if (isUIContext) then {hint "UI control event"};
Example 2:: _button ctrlSetEventHandler ['ButtonClick',"call {diag_log isUIContext}"]; // Outputs true
Example 3:: _button ctrlSetEventHandler ['ButtonClick',"[] spawn {diag_log isUIContext}"]; // Outputs false

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-|x1= <code>[[if]] ([[isUIContext]]) [[then]] {[[hint]] "UI control event"};</code>|= EXAMPLE2
+|x1= <code>[[if]] ([[isUIContext]]) [[then]] {[[hint]] "UI control event"};</code>|= EXAMPLE1
+|x2= <code>_button [[ctrlSetEventHandler]] ['ButtonClick',"[[call]] {[[diag_log]] [[isUIContext]]}"]; // Outputs true</code>|= EXAMPLE2
+|x3= <code>_button [[ctrlSetEventHandler]] ['ButtonClick',"[] [[spawn]] {[[diag_log]] [[isUIContext]]}"]; // Outputs false</code>|= EXAMPLE3
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-<dl class="command_description">
-<dd class="notedate">Posted on September 12, 2017 - 12:46 (UTC)</dd>
-<dt class="note">[[User:Demellion|Demellion]]</dt>
-<dd class="note">
-'''NOTE''': The invocation source never reccur to a newly generated threads (e.g. [[spawn]], [[execVM]], [[remoteExec]]).Example with RscButton:
-<code>_button ctrlSetEventHandler ['ButtonClick',"0 call {systemChat str(isUIContext)}"]; // Will return as true
-_button ctrlSetEventHandler ['ButtonClick',"0 spawn {systemChat str(isUIContext)}"]; // Will always return false
-</code>
-</dd>
-</dl>
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