VGUI PanelListPanel

A PanelListPanel is a vgui2 element defined in the vgui_controls library, in the file PanelListPanel.cpp. PanelListPanels are available in all source games. PanelListPanels display a list of user specified label, control pairs.

This is a screenshot of a skeleton PanelListPanel.

Example Usage

Before creating anything, we first need to include the PanelListPanel header file.

#include <vgui_controls/PanelListPanel.h>

PanelListPanels can be created via the c++ keyword new with a simple call to PanelListPanel.

vgui::PanelListPanel* myPanel = new PanelListPanel(this, "myPanel");

Once we have our PanelListPanel created, we can add controls to it in our ApplySchemeSettings function. Heres the ApplySchemeSettings function for the skeleton PanelListPanel displayed in the image to the right:

void CItemMenu::ApplySchemeSettings( vgui::IScheme *pScheme )
{
	BaseClass::ApplySchemeSettings( pScheme );

       char buffer [40];

	for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)
	{
               //Create Image
		Q_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "image%i", i);
		vgui::ImagePanel* imagePanel = new ImagePanel( this, buffer );
		imagePanel->SetImage(scheme()->GetImage("", false));

               //Create Label
		Q_snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "label%i", i);
		vgui::Label* label = new Label( this, buffer, buffer );
		label->SetText(buffer);

               //Add Label and Image to PanelListPanel
		m_pList->AddItem(label, imagePanel);
	}

	m_pList->SetVisible( true );
}

With m_pList being a pointer to the PanelListPanel.

Lastly we'll set the control size.

void CItemMenu::PerformLayout()
{
	BaseClass::PerformLayout();

	m_pList->SetBounds( 280, 300, 200, 200 ); //posX, posY, width, height
}

And we're done!