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Getting Started - buttons not visible

by Judith Hudson · in Torque Game Engine · 11/07/2004 (6:55 pm) · 3 replies

I'm working my way through the Getting Started documentation. When I did the lesson on adding buttons (my first button), the button showed up fine but when I restart the fps demo, the new button is not visible. I saved mainMenugui.gui as instructed. When I open the file, the new button appears to be present. Am I supposed to add something to init.cs or delete the dso file?
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
11/07/2004 (9:43 pm)
Deleting the .dso file might be a good start.

Torque 3D Owner Judith Hudson
#2
11/08/2004 (4:30 am)
I did that and found that the program would not compiled. I then restored the original files and reran the tutorial. Everything worked ok. I must have mistyped something. Thanks. I have buttons!

Torque Owner Ace
#3
11/08/2004 (4:41 am)
Well i have added to client/init.cs for my button
//ace
function loadSinglePlayer()
{
   // Display the loading GUI
   Canvas.setContent(LoadingGui);
   LOAD_MapName.setText( "Creating Single Player Game" );
  	LOAD_MapDescription.setText( "<font:Arial:16>Please wait while the Single Player is started...");
   Canvas.repaint();

   // Start up the server..
   createServer("SinglePlayer", "starter.quest/data/missions/home.mis");
   %conn = new GameConnection(ServerConnection);
   RootGroup.add(ServerConnection);
   %conn.setConnectArgs($pref::Player::Name);
   %conn.setJoinPassword($Client::Password);
   %conn.connectLocal();
}
//endace

my button starts a singleplayer game, and the gui looks like this
new GuiButtonCtrl() {
      profile = "GuiButtonProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "35 242";
      extent = "111 35";
      minExtent = "8 2";
      visible = "1";
      command = "loadSinglePlayer();";
      text = "Play Single Player ";
      groupNum = "-1";
      buttonType = "PushButton";
         helpTag = "0";
   };