Compass and Map Gui

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This is the friutation of some tweaking done by myself and a few others in the forums to get a compass working in game. Original code is from nohbdy, fix for the updated engine by david doughner, and im sure others are in there. if i missed you, sorry!

Anyhow, unzip guicompassctrl.cc and .h to engine/game/gui. Add to your project and rebuild the app. Unzip the png to a directory you feel appropriate. Run your app. upon entering a level, hit f10 to bring up the gui editor. Add a new gui control, picking guicompassctrl. In the bitmap field, enter the directory of the png (mine is fps/data/textures/compass.png). Hit apply. Viola. It may not be the prettiest, but it works just fine ;)


Part 2: Map

I felt that a compass would be useless unless you had some sort of way to use the info. So, i cooked up a method to display a map bitmap that shows the user info needed to be able to use the compass in a useful manner. First off, i made a texture, map.jpg, and put in in my /data/textures directory. Secondly, i went to fps/client/config.cs and added these lines at the bottom:

moveMap.bindcmd(keyboard, "t", "", "MapGui.toggle();");

thirdly, i copied client/playerlistgui.gui and renamed it mapgui.gui i did a find-replace for playerlist and replaced it with map, and added this function at the end:

function MapGUI::toggle(%this) 
{ 
if (%this.isAwake()) 
Canvas.popDialog(%this); 
else 
Canvas.pushDialog(%this); 
}

upon entering the game and hitting f-10, i switched to my new mapgui and made a guibitmapctrl and set the bitmap to be my map. i also changed the guitextctrl to read "map" instead of players, and i resized some stuff to look right. simple as that.
--edit:( 1/32/02 9 pm EST)
you also need to add

exec("./ui/mapGui.gui");

in fps/client/init.cs

--/edit

Fallacies:
1) Yes, I only have one map in my game right now, so i really didnt feel the need to be able to have different maps bitmaps for different levels, as i dont have any more than one level. If anyone needs this, as im sure some will, Ill cook it up and update this snippit.

2) Thanks to bruce wallace for this fix!

good luck and good coding
ryan