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Calling client functions from a GUI

by Kevin James · in Torque Game Builder · 03/31/2005 (10:11 am) · 2 replies

I want the game to wait until "Start" is pressed in the GUI:

new GuiButtonCtrl()
{
profile = "GuiButtonProfile";
horizSizing = "right";
vertSizing = "bottom";
position = "580 0";
extent = "40 15";
minExtent = "8 2";
visible = "1";
text = "Start";
groupNum = "-1";
buttonType = "PushButton";
command = "setupT2DScene();";
};

I commented out the last line in initialiseClient where setupT2DScene is called, hoping that the GUI could do it with a button click. I'm lost as to why this doesn't work.
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    Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
    Torque
    #1
    03/31/2005 (10:20 am)
    What I would do is just have all of your game code broken down, like the tutorial has you do and bring it all to one function

    function startMyGame()
    {
    setupImages();
    etc
    etc
    etc
    }

    then have the button call that

    Torque Owner Kevin James
    #2
    03/31/2005 (10:33 am)
    Omg.. that worked. I don't understand why it made a difference but it did...

    I went from this:
    function setupT2DScene()
    {
    new fxSceneGraph2D(t2dSceneGraph);
    sceneWindow2D.setSceneGraph( t2dSceneGraph );
    sceneWindow2D.setCurrentCameraPosition( "0 0 100 75" );

    SetupImages();
    CreatePlayer();
    CreateTileMap();
    }

    To this:

    function setupT2DScene()
    {
    new fxSceneGraph2D(t2dSceneGraph);
    sceneWindow2D.setSceneGraph( t2dSceneGraph );
    sceneWindow2D.setCurrentCameraPosition( "0 0 100 75" );
    }

    function StartupGame()
    {
    SetupImages();
    CreatePlayer();
    CreateTileMap();
    }

    put setupT2DScene back in initialiseClient and changed the GUI to this:
    command = "StartupGame();";

    ALL HAIL KING BOB!