Component:PrimitiveMemberEditor

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Primitive Member Editor component as seen in the Scene Inspector

The PrimitiveMemberEditor component is a lower-level component for accessing and editing the members of a particular primitive element. Its intention is for use Scene Inspectors, since they use a text field to drive member properties, but it can be more generally used on player-made UIX objects as well. It is also, as indicated by a big warning on it, commonly used for Ref Hacking, due to being able to read and write the id field of a RefID.

Fields

Fields

Name	Type	Description
persistent	Bool	Determines whether or not this item will be saved to the server.
UpdateOrder	Int	Controls the order in which this component is updated.
Enabled	Bool	Controls whether or not this component is enabled.
Continuous	Bool	Whether to update the target field while editing the text field. If disabled, it will only update at the end.
_path	String	Member path of target element field to access/edit.
_target	direct RelayRef`1<IField>	The primitive element to access/edit.
Format	String	The format for representing the target primitive. About the same as the Format field for the To String node, but only works on a limited set of primitives.
_textEditor	TextEditor	The TextEditor that points to the Text Component used for _textDrive.
_textDrive	field drive of String	Text field used as an interface to the member. Should be the Content field of a Text Component.
_button	Button	Button used for editing, like on a TextField.
_resetButton	Button	Button used to reset the value. Intended to only be used for strings.

Usage

This component needs, at minimum, _target to point to an element with fields, a _textDrive that points to the Content field of a Text component, and a _textEditor that points to a TextEditor with its Text field pointing to the to the aforementioned Text component.

Additionally, one may fill in the _button and _resetButton fields. These fields are not too terribly useful to fill in, as they don't provide much functionality themselves, but they are used when internally building the Inspector UI and when any part of the component is changed. When any part of the component changes, including when the field it is pointing to is edited, if _button is filled, all colors in the ColorDrivers list will be set to the first color drive. If _resetButton is filled, its slot will disable if the field that the component is editing is not a string, which can be worked around by driving the Enabled state of the slot to true.

At minimum, for proper functionality of this component, the EditingFinished Sync Delegate must be applied to the EditingFinished field of the TextEditor or Continuous must be checked and EditingChanged to be applied to a TextEditor. This ensures that the value in the TextField is written to the field that the component points to. However, applying the EditingStarted and EditingChanged delegates are also recommended to apply to the TextEditor as they allow for a better editing experience. The OnReset delegate is not needed unless one wishes to add a reset button.

Additionally, the _textDrive field acts as a drive with write back. Writing to it via a Write node will change the pointed field so long as _textEditor is also filled.

Examples

Due to the nature of this component, it is difficult to provide examples in images. However, there does exist in-game examples to look at.

• resrec:///U-yosh/R-8bf5c7c2-355e-4385-bb15-fdc24043ef72

See Also

• Component:BooleanMemberEditor
• Component:ColorMemberEditor
• Component:ColorXMemberEditor
• Component:EnumMemberEditor
• Component:NullableMemberEditor
• Component:QuaternionMemberEditor
• Component:SliderMemberEditor
• Things_to_Avoid#Reference_IDs_/_"Ref_Hacking"