Cannot delete labels/gauges/miniconsoles/etc

[Garagoth]

Please add methods to delete (as in: remove from existence and forget that it ever existed) UI elements. Hiding them is insufficient at they pile up in memory.

Creating a dynamic UI without this is veeery troublesome.

Mudlet version: 2.0
OS: Win 7

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

What kind of a use case do you have where elements keep getting created and
aren't reused?

[Garagoth (garagoth)]

I am trying to create scripts that display various elements on screen as reaction to mud output.
These elements size / placement / labels texts /etc are not known until mud output comes and are removed after either some time or when specific line arrives from mud.

Right now I implemented this using a pool of labels and gauges that are moved to correct place and shown there and once not needed they are hidden and returned to pool. (if there are no more elements in pool they are created and added to it)

Not a perfect solution and a very messy one.

[Heiko (koehnheiko)]

OK. This will be added in the future as it's a fairly popular request.

Am 05.01.2013 02:22, schrieb Garagoth:
> I am trying to create scripts that display various elements on screen as reaction to mud output.
> These elements size / placement / labels texts /etc are not known until mud output comes and are removed after either some time or when specific line arrives from mud.
>
> Right now I implemented this using a pool of labels and gauges that are
> moved to correct place and shown there and once not needed they are
> hidden and returned to pool. (if there are no more elements in pool they
> are created and added to it)
>
> Not a perfect solution and a very messy one.
>

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Yeah, true enough.

[Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin)]

Migrating issues to Github, please follow the new discussion here: https://github.com/Mudlet/Mudlet/issues/662

This issue needs to be closed and there is no appropriate status, so will set it to "Opinion" just for migration purposes.