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Displaying GUI control from engine

by Gordon Marsh · in Torque Game Engine · 09/06/2006 (1:00 pm) · 3 replies

All,

I have created a new GUI control which inherits directly from GuiControl. The control is simply a button which should pop up when the player enters a certain mode.

However, the event which causes the player to enter this mode is signalled in the engine (player.cc), so I need to display this control from within the engine, not script.

From tests I suppose I need more than:
myGuiCtrl* temp = new myGuiCtrl();
temp->setVisibility(true);
But am unsure of what I am missing - do I need to pop the control onto the screen somehow?

Or, on further reading, is it better to build a .cs/.gui file and exec it somehow from the engine?

Thanks, Gords
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Associate Orion Elenzil
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#1
09/06/2006 (1:19 pm)
I believe you'll need to add the control to a parent control such as PlayGui.
if you're creating it in the engine you'll probably also need to Register() it yourself.

i would advise doing it the more standard way,
which is including it in the appropriate .GUI file, but hidden,
and then in player.cc make a callback to script to show the button.

eg

playGui.gui (for example)
new myGuiControl(mySpecialButton) {
      profile = "GuiDefaultProfile";
      horizSizing = "right";
      vertSizing = "bottom";
      position = "0 0";
      extent = "30 30";
      visible = "0";
   };


engine
void Player::foo()
{
   bool visible = 1;
   Con::executef(this, 2, "fooCallback", Con::getIntArg(visible));
}

script
function Player::fooCallback(%this, %visible)
{
   mySpecialButton.setVisible(%visible);
}

.. it may seem like a waste to call out to script for this,
but it's surprising how often it's nice to be able to fool with the logic and such behind GUI elements in scripts.

Torque Owner Gordon Marsh
#2
09/06/2006 (1:50 pm)
Thanks for the very rapid response Orion! That's exactly what I wanted. I'll have to rework some stuff, but it should be pretty easy from here...

Gords

Associate Orion Elenzil
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#3
09/06/2006 (2:19 pm)
My pleasure!