nocturne cave Sep 30, 2019, 8:42 AM

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See ur PMs

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It should make that

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 5:46 PM

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I am trying to add items to a list box. I can do it through the debugger, but attempts to do so through the parent dialog onLoad event do not work. what might I be doing wrong? my logging indicates that there are indeed items that should be added to the LB.

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 6:08 PM

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I don't really know if the child controls are already created by engine when onLoad gets called. Try to see if the listbox control is null

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 6:15 PM

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I'm testing for isNull, it seems they are there. or is there a better event I can respond to in order to do that?

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 6:16 PM

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generally if you just createDialog/createDisplay and then instantly start adding data to listbox, it should work

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it's really weird, if the control is there, then it must work 🤔

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 6:19 PM

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I'm not seeing one, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers, if it isn't onLoad I do not know which one it is. I put some systemChat messages in, and the controls are there.

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 6:22 PM

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Allright, maybe you could show some code?

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 6:27 PM

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I persuaded it... on the LB onLoad rather than the dialog onLoad.

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question re: class inherited properties... is there an enable = <bool>; or enabled = <bool>; property?

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 6:34 PM

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I am not sure what you mean. Do you mean if GUI config classes have an enabled property which would enable/disable the control on load?

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 6:35 PM

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correct. I can respond easy enough on the event itself, but I'd rather do it in the class out of the gate if I could.

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saves me a few less event handlers.

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 6:36 PM

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I don't see this at the wiki page so probably no

tranquil iron Sep 30, 2019, 6:53 PM

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there are no bools at all in config :kappa:

deep loom Sep 30, 2019, 6:54 PM

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🤖 0⃣ 1⃣

mental trench Sep 30, 2019, 7:29 PM

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You can write bool in config

tranquil iron Sep 30, 2019, 7:31 PM

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"bool"

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 7:42 PM

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duh just use the lovely preprocessor #define TRUE 1

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 7:47 PM

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concerning the onLBSelChanged event, https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers#onLBSelChanged ... what is the form for LB_MULTI style? based on empirical evidence, it clearly is not params ["_control", "_selectedIndex"]; ... when I say params ["_ctrl"]; lbSelection _ctrl; in my event handler, I get a message Error lbselection: Type Array, expected Control.

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 7:55 PM

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Probably it's faster to dump _this into diag_log and see what is being passed to this event handler

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Than to wait till someone answers the question here...

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 8:00 PM

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_this passed from the .hpp is indeed the control.

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and the lbselection message is not mine. that came from within lbselection.

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hmm, I wonder if that has to do with A3 parameters engine? does it see one value and try to jam the two callback arguments in there? operating on that hypothesis ...

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appears that maybe that is the case.

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the form appears to be different from single selection to LB_MULTI, these are the parameters I am receiving... _ctrl: [Control #7212,0], _1:

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the _this happening in my .hpp class, onLBSelChanged = "[_this, _selectedIndex] call KP_liberation_dialog_shareLoadouts_unitsListBox_onLBSelChanged"; appears different. perhaps in the multi use case, they forgot to deconstruct the tuple?

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hmm, that's interesting, took it out of LB_MULTI, the form appears to be the same. the tuple is passed as _this.

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so if I wanted to break that out, I would need to do something like this, onLBSelChanged = "[_this select 0, _this select 1] call KP_liberation_dialog_shareLoadouts_unitsListBox_onLBSelChanged";

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 8:16 PM

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onLBSelChanged = "[_this, _selectedIndex] call KP_liberation_dialog_shareLoadouts_unitsListBox_onLBSelChanged"```
when this event handler gets called, it gets called without any context (that is, any other local variables) except for _this, which is an array of the form `[_control, _selectedindex]`.
You, however, tell arma to pass _selectedIndex local variable straight away, before it is created anywhere

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so instead you should do like
onLBSelChanged = "_this call ...";

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 8:20 PM

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ah, I see the difference... so the tuple is the call parameters. thanks for noticing that.

mental trench Sep 30, 2019, 8:25 PM

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duh just use the lovely preprocessor #define TRUE 1
No need you can write
property = true; or false

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It then depends on what is expected of this property to be

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There is no getBool for scripts so you can’t directly convert property into true or false, but getNumber will give you 1 and 0.

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 9:55 PM

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question about the timing of the onLBSelChanged event... it feels to me more like a onLBSelChanging event than a onLBSelChanged, seems to me that the state of the selection is lagging behind the actual event.

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I've tried several ways to ask about the selection, from the _selectedIndex coupled with lbIsSelected, lbSelection, etc, and the state is a step behind the actual event.

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which to me makes it kind of futile to respond with button enabling control, because you cannot depend upon the state being current.

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has anyone experienced this? or can anyone suggest any viable workarounds?

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additionally, given that this is the case, all you are provided is [_control, _selectedIndex], you cannot determine what the actual state of the selection is, whether the index was selected or unselected, for example.

ruby swallow Sep 30, 2019, 10:03 PM

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Use spawn instead of call

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It is pretty much the solution to All such Timing issues

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 10:04 PM

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ah I see. I'll try that thanks @ruby swallow

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so if I understand correctly, spawn adds the handler to the scheduler, so we have state refreshed and waiting when the handler finally hits the ground running?

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would'ya look at that. predictable behavior! sweet. 😄

ocean hazel Sep 30, 2019, 10:16 PM

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spawn adds the code to scheduler, yes, and the code will most likely run at the next frame, or after two frames, or three, or three hundred... depending on how much loaded it is

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You can replace spawn with cba wait and execute or its analogues when you make it work with spawn

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Then it will be totally predictable one frame delay

opaque lynx Sep 30, 2019, 10:37 PM

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I'll check that out, thank you.

ocean hazel Oct 3, 2019, 3:55 PM

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How is arma text scaled? If I set text size to 1, does it make all character images have size of 1 in abs units, or is it different?

barren apex Oct 3, 2019, 4:10 PM

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sizeEx is the size relative the control where the text is put iirc

ocean hazel Oct 3, 2019, 4:28 PM

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If all text size was relative, then each control would have a different text size... makes no sense

barren apex Oct 3, 2019, 4:39 PM

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Yeah, you're right

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Maybe that will answer?
http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-gui-part-5/
http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-gui-part-3/

astral narwhal Oct 3, 2019, 6:40 PM

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Im having some issues with a screen display i have created. on my screen and most others it is up against the right side of the screen as intended but for people with really wide screens we have issues. below are links to the code for display and the two images for how its supposed to look and how it looks on really wide screens. I really could use some help on this.
Code
https://pastebin.com/6g0HmPWr
How it should look
https://imgur.com/a/S2n2kiz
How wrong it goes
https://imgur.com/a/haOqIV4

barren apex Oct 3, 2019, 6:56 PM

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Look at https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SafeZone. Here you're doing 0.6 times the screen width + the screen left border horizontal coords (0.6 * safeZoneW + safeZoneX) but you should instead do the screen left border horizontal coords + the screen width (safeZoneX + safeZoneW) and substract your controls' width so it will always be in the bottom-right corner.

astral narwhal Oct 3, 2019, 8:34 PM

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@barren apex thanks im going to try that now.

astral narwhal Oct 3, 2019, 9:14 PM

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@barren apex that worked. thanks mate

agile sinew Oct 4, 2019, 7:25 AM

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is pixel grid system/can be done in screen percentage?

quiet arrow Oct 4, 2019, 8:58 AM

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@astral narwhal Your width is set in absolut values, that's why I doesn't scale with that 21:9 ratio.

vernal quest Oct 4, 2019, 4:21 PM

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is possible to disable scroll on controls group?

barren apex Oct 4, 2019, 7:42 PM

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Yep: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/CT_CONTROLS_GROUP

stoic delta Oct 6, 2019, 7:35 PM

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is it possible to modify the nature of how autoscroll works? Instead of the control group fading and returning to top, I'd rather just have it immediately return to top w/o fading in/out

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:09 AM

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when you select a new item in a combo box does it fire the 'action' line of the comboBox?

ocean hazel Oct 9, 2019, 1:10 AM

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I don't really know but you can add a great deal of event handlers through ctrlAddEventHandler

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:10 AM

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okay I'll look into it thanks

ocean hazel Oct 9, 2019, 1:10 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-Combo

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Look at the bottom example

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I think you need this one:
onLBSelChanged = "systemChat str ['onLBSelChanged',_this]; false";

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:11 AM

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yeah was just reading that

ocean hazel Oct 9, 2019, 1:11 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers#onLBSelChanged

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:12 AM

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do I have to restart the entire mission for the dialog changes to take hold?

ocean hazel Oct 9, 2019, 1:12 AM

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if you need the game to re-read the mission config, yes

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actually you need to go back to editor

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then start it again

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AFAIK a restart doesn't make it re-read the config

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...that's why I like to configure dialogs through SQF, because you can recompile the code while the mission is running

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:13 AM

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Ah I see

ocean hazel Oct 9, 2019, 1:13 AM

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so instead of doing it in config, you can run a script when dialog gets opened, in that script you can add event handlers through ctrlAddEventHandler

fickle atlas Oct 9, 2019, 1:14 AM

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yeah that sounds like a great idea - antistasi takes a bit to load up each time

ornate thistle Oct 11, 2019, 6:54 AM

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My dialog's default button is flashing, and I can see no refernce to such behaviour in the Biki, can anyone point me in the direction of making my buttons NOT flash ? 🙂

mental trench Oct 11, 2019, 11:22 AM

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Let’s bring that crystal ball 🔮

ocean hazel Oct 11, 2019, 11:46 AM

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You mean it is changing color periodically?

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You have not set up all colors of it I suppose

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-Buttons
Check colorFocused and colorBackground

pale jetty Oct 11, 2019, 9:11 PM

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How do I make it so I can move in a dialog but still be able to click the dialog?
I am trying to add more options to the eg spectator camera so I want a display over it hiding the normal display of eg spectator cam
But I can only move my camera with scroll and not wasd

restive girder Oct 11, 2019, 9:30 PM

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you cant

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all those camera dislpays have actual script to let you move camera

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i guess you could call whatever the normal spectator thing uses

pale jetty Oct 11, 2019, 9:48 PM

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I've seen it on a video before, not sure what they used for camera if it was splendid or eg spectator, but they had a moving camera with a custom dialog that has a player list etc.

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(no mods)

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Any idea how they did it?

ornate thistle Oct 11, 2019, 10:05 PM

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Sparker. After some trial and error it has something to do with the background active and focused. I am getting a "blinking" effect which is not what I want at all.

ocean hazel Oct 11, 2019, 10:32 PM

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If you set the same colors, you will not get blinking

pale jetty Oct 11, 2019, 10:54 PM

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I changed my code and instead of using an existing free cam I used this to create the free cam. (works fine)

        _camera = "CamCurator" camCreate eyePos player;
        _camera camCommand "maxPitch 89";
        _camera camCommand "minPitch -89";
        _camera camCommand "speedDefault 0.1";
        _camera camCommand "speedMax 2";
        _camera camCommand "ceilingHeight 5000";
        _camera camCommand "atl off";
        _camera camCommand "surfaceSpeed off";
        _camera CameraEffect ["INTERNAL","Back"];
        cameraEffectEnableHUD true;

Anyways, I can still not control wasd, I am guessing the dialog I made is blocking it somehow.
How can I solve this?

pale jetty Oct 12, 2019, 10:28 AM

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Fixed this by making camera controls from scratch, still don't know how eg spectator did it. Haven't found any code of their movement not even the splendid camera one. Been looking for it for months.

mental trench Oct 12, 2019, 10:33 AM

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still don't know how eg spectator did it
If only one could see BIS source files... oh wait

pale jetty Oct 12, 2019, 10:33 AM

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I did find the eg spectator files

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Didn't find anything about their movement

Haven't found any code of their movement

pale jetty Oct 12, 2019, 8:52 PM

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How do I set individual colors for my Toolbox (type 6)? I have 5 Images and I want specific colors for them.

stoic delta Oct 12, 2019, 11:16 PM

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can an R2T Texture be applied to a Static control with ST_PICTURE as the style? I can't seem to get it working in my script

mental trench Oct 13, 2019, 7:19 AM

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It can

stoic delta Oct 13, 2019, 9:23 AM

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I know ice done it in the past but for some reason it won't work for me now

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I'll send the dialog control class and script when i get a chance

stoic delta Oct 13, 2019, 12:47 PM

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here is the class:


                class helmetCam_r2t_st : RscPicture
                {
                    idc = 2306;
                    x = 0.74375;
                    y = 0.556;
                    w = safeZoneW * 0.2;
                    h = safeZoneH * 0.2;
                    text = "#(argb,512,512,1)r2t(helmetCam_r2t,1.0)";
                    //text = "#(argb,8,8,3)color(0.6,0.6,0.6,0.5)";
                    tooltip = "Helmet Cam Feed";
                    style = ST_PICTURE;
                };```
and here is the script
```sqf
if (isNull _unit) exitWith {
    if (!isNull cain_helmet_camera_object) then {
        cain_helmet_camera_object cameraEffect ["Terminate", "BACK", "helmetCam_r2t"];
        camDestroy cain_helmet_camera_object;
    };
};

//Create camera if not present
if (isNull cain_helmet_camera_object) then {
    cain_helmet_camera_object = "camera" camCreate [0,0,500];
    cain_helmet_camera_object cameraEffect ["Internal", "BACK", "helmetCam_r2t"];
};

mental trench Oct 13, 2019, 1:08 PM

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You variable is undefined, so nothing will work. You need to execute cain_helmet_camera_object = objNull; somewhere before you try anything

vernal quest Oct 13, 2019, 7:38 PM

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Hello! Is possible to hide mouse cursor in dialog?

silver nacelle Oct 15, 2019, 6:01 PM

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anyone wanna use InDesign to make UIs?

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https://i.imgur.com/vkq0Z7M.png

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https://i.imgur.com/Dw62GR6.png

vital warren Oct 15, 2019, 6:12 PM

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That looks good @silver nacelle

silver nacelle Oct 15, 2019, 6:15 PM

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Thanks @vital warren

vernal quest Oct 16, 2019, 7:23 PM

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@silver nacelle looks great

smoky hatch Oct 17, 2019, 7:58 PM

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How do I setup the scriptPath for BIS_fnc_initDisplay? The only reference to CfgScriptPaths on the whole wiki is on the wiki page for BIS_fnc_initDisplay

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I also couldn't find any results on the forum for CfgScriptPaths

idle radish Oct 17, 2019, 8:49 PM

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path is either in the Engines internal folder structure or the mission folder acts as the root folder you can run scripts from

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what is it that you are trying to do?

smoky hatch Oct 17, 2019, 8:52 PM

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Im modifying the splendid camera and running my own function to limit where it can go

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Going to recreate the arma 2 construction interface

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Here is the original display class for the camera:

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https://pastebin.com/raw/jnWDGLEV

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    scriptPath = "GUI";
    onLoad = "[""onLoad"",_this,""RscDisplayCamera"",'GUI'] call     (uinamespace getvariable 'BIS_fnc_initDisplay')";
    onUnload = "[""onUnload"",_this,""RscDisplayCamera"",'GUI'] call     (uinamespace getvariable 'BIS_fnc_initDisplay')";```

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So I'm guessing scriptname is literally just the sqf file name?

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GUI would be the folder its contained in

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Or would scriptname be the function name?

smoky hatch Oct 17, 2019, 9:34 PM

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aha, I found it. Scriptname is the name of the file, path is the variable defined in CfgScriptPaths. in the ui_f.pbo

ocean hazel Oct 20, 2019, 10:46 PM

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I'm lost!
What is the correct style of a static text which can be selected but can't be edited?

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Oh nvm it's not style, it's a canModify property of an edit-type control

hollow rose Oct 22, 2019, 3:05 PM

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When creating a custom gui, through the ingame gui editor: Elements position gets defined as "somevalue * GUI_GRID_....". When trying to show the UI ingame, my display gets created, but I cant see any of the elements. Any thoughts?

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Changing the position to use "somevalue * safezone... + safezone..." makes it show up

barren apex Oct 22, 2019, 3:07 PM

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You need to define GUI_GRID_WHATEVER with a macro iirc

hollow rose Oct 22, 2019, 3:08 PM

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Great, I'll try to find out what it should be defined as 🙂

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Found it! Didnt find a shortcut to export it directly, but using Ctrl + S -> select "Grid Macros" as format -> Paste clipboard into defines.

barren apex Oct 22, 2019, 3:13 PM

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👍

agile sinew Nov 3, 2019, 8:43 AM

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how do you newline again in a standard text element, or you need a different control / structured text for that?

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 12:13 PM

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In static text you mean?

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It must have a multiline style

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And lineSpacing property IIRC

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Example

			idc = -1;
			x = 0.00000066;
			y = 0.05000038;
			w = __WIDTH;
			h = 0.08;
			style = 0+16+512;
			text = "Enemy radio cryptokey was found!";
			font = "PuristaMedium";
			sizeEx = 0.04;
			lineSpacing = 1;```

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Then newline is the usual "\n" in string

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Or if it doesn't work then
_endl = toString [13,10];

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@agile sinew

agile sinew Nov 3, 2019, 12:22 PM

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thanks. found it a littler earlier 🙂

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its actually:

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style = 16;

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 12:28 PM

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Yes, plus the noframe style(or how is it called), otherwise it has this weird frame around it

polar bronze Nov 3, 2019, 2:55 PM

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Can anybody teach me whats different between GUI and IGUI?

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 3:00 PM

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GUI is a graphical user interface
What is IGUI then?

quiet arrow Nov 3, 2019, 3:00 PM

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interactive grafically user interface

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 3:00 PM

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Then what's the question?

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🤷

quiet arrow Nov 3, 2019, 3:00 PM

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so a static text would be a GUI and a button and IGUI

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that's how I define the difference

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but then again, it doesn't matter in arma

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 3:01 PM

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One assumes user to push something, another one doesn't? 🤷

agile sinew Nov 3, 2019, 3:33 PM

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@ocean hazel do you have the noframe part at hand please

ocean hazel Nov 3, 2019, 3:33 PM

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sure 🤔

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ahh the wiki is ded

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Should be this thing #define ST_NO_RECT 0x200

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yes, or 512 style as I mentioned above, should work, doesn't it? does it still show the annoying frame?

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so should be
style = 16 + 512; (or its equivalent with defines)

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style = ST_MULTI + ST_NO_RECT;

agile sinew Nov 3, 2019, 3:49 PM

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tx

polar bronze Nov 4, 2019, 1:03 AM

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@quiet arrow thank you for the answer

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Was wondering where i can find handle for chemical detectors screen and spectrum device's screen.

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 3:09 AM

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for ctrlCreate is there a way to create the control in the background controlGroup, I noticed you can input a controlgroup but not sure how to put it into the default background one

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reason i'm trying to do this is I have some controls already defined in the display class, and I don't want these new controls created via ctrlCreate to display over it

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 4:42 AM

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got it working creating a dummy control group that i add to with ctrlCreate

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 5:12 AM

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although if anyone has a better way of doing it ill be glad to hear it because doing it that way screws up all the positions of the UI elements 😦

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:33 AM

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You mean it screws up all the positions of the elements you add into the dummy control group you've mentioned? Positions in the group are relative to group's origin, not display's origin. Therefore if you align the position of the group with display origin, the coordinate systems will be aligned. @empty mountain

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:33 AM

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Yeah, I did that but I got some weirdness where elements were getting cut off despite the group/display taking up the entire screen

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:34 AM

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Cut off with the group switching on its scroll sliders?

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:34 AM

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No I used the control group without sliders but maybe

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this is how it looked: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/515032784549445632/640775720783839252/unknown.png

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and how its actually meant to look(after i did another workaround) https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/515032784549445632/640790518527426570/unknown.png

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:37 AM

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Ah yes I understand, if group is positioned at (0, 0), it's actually not the top-left of the screen, but top-left of the 'viewport', that's why :(

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:37 AM

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like the first one was x = 0, y = 0, w = safezonew, h = safezoneh etc

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ohhh

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is there a way around it?

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:37 AM

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Sure

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:38 AM

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like it doesnt matter now as I just made dummy controls for the two controls with the layering issue and that dealt with it

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but for future reference

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:39 AM

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X = safezonex; y = safezoney; will put the group in the top-left corner.
But then you will have to take into account this offset in all the child controls of course.

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:40 AM

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mmm yeah when I did that i got this : https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/515032784549445632/640775238342279199/unknown.png

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but I didnt try offsetting the child controls

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I thought I was just missing something with the control group

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:41 AM

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Well, if you tried, then it would work.

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:42 AM

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would it be as simple as adding/subtracting safezoneX etc from the child controls positions?

ocean hazel Nov 4, 2019, 10:43 AM

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Yeah

empty mountain Nov 4, 2019, 10:43 AM

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fuuu

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oh well, good to know next time

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 11:13 AM

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is any event handlers for rscEdit ctrlText changed?

ocean hazel Nov 5, 2019, 11:15 AM

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If not, you can compare previous and current text on each frame

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Another alternative is to add keyboard event handlers

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 11:16 AM

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@ocean hazel is something life onKeyDown?

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers#onKeyDown

barren apex Nov 5, 2019, 11:18 AM

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Yep

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There's also an "onChar" eh, but i've never used it

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 11:20 AM

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@ocean hazel @barren apex thank you! I will try that method

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 11:48 AM

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onChar is working, but have problems

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http://prntscr.com/pspbxt

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i take ctrlText from edit and add _charCode

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but when i use Backspace button to replace - script don't working

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and taking this

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http://prntscr.com/pspdb5

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i think the best solution on this case - just run script with onMouseMoving on with cycle

ocean hazel Nov 5, 2019, 11:55 AM

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Why not on each frame then?

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 11:55 AM

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i don't like onEachFrame 😄 when use that - getting low fps

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ah, get it working, i think) just added event for Backspace

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on edit control

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but have another question 🙂

ocean hazel Nov 5, 2019, 12:00 PM

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Not rly if it's only active when your dlg is open, gettext and compare strings is less than 100 microseconds I believe.
Anyway I think that if you are having your own dialog, you should rather use the key down EH. I was thinking it would be getting too complicated to check if for instance the edit box is in focus or user is pressing the printable characters, but probably you can ignore these checks and just run your stuff regardless of these checks

vernal quest Nov 5, 2019, 12:03 PM

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as i understand - onChar is event handler special for rscEdit when is not focused - script it not working

barren apex Nov 5, 2019, 12:28 PM

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Use keyDown/Up to detect backspace then

cosmic glade Nov 7, 2019, 2:29 AM

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https://i.imgur.com/XcUgWxG.png does anyone know how to create this kind of element? I want to use it for my module's attributes

warped karma Nov 7, 2019, 7:30 AM

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can be done with a ControlsTable https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-ControlsTable

tranquil iron Nov 7, 2019, 11:48 AM

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Is there a way to trigger TreeView control filtering via script?
you can use idcSearch to a invisible Edit control and then via script change the text in that control to trigger a filter, but is there a scripted way without the seperate edit control?
I assume there simply is no way

quiet arrow Nov 7, 2019, 2:07 PM

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Not that I know of

warped karma Nov 7, 2019, 2:08 PM

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yep, I think there's no way to trigger it directly by script
but for me with bigger TreeTiew controls the idcSearch is pretty much unusable because it laggs/stops the whole arma exe

tranquil iron Nov 7, 2019, 2:09 PM

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Yeah thats my point. I want to fix that lag/freeze

warped karma Nov 7, 2019, 2:09 PM

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the rendering of the control itself is far from optimized, too

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have a control with a few 1000s entries only slightly visible and I can hear my fans spinning up

quiet arrow Nov 7, 2019, 2:11 PM

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tree view control has alot of perf issues

ocean hazel Nov 7, 2019, 2:11 PM

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An edit box with lots of text slows down arma as well 🤷

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Well, lots like... a hell lot, but still

tranquil iron Nov 7, 2019, 2:12 PM

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My focus is only making zeus usable without freezing for 5+ seconds everytime you wanna do whatever

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If that means I have to optimize all treeviews, then so be it

agile sinew Nov 7, 2019, 3:01 PM

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make a new control type 😬

tranquil iron Nov 7, 2019, 3:01 PM

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someone be cray cray.

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Custom control support is on my intercept todo list, but... I doubt that will ever happen

ocean hazel Nov 7, 2019, 3:40 PM

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Custom control which can stream pictures from outside of the game confirmed (not)

restive girder Nov 7, 2019, 4:32 PM

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I assume there simply is no way

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Basically no

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In my object placement mod the invisible control setting text filter with a delay is exactly what i do

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even then with a lot of ptions in it its still just way too slow though

tranquil iron Nov 8, 2019, 8:07 PM

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bigger TreeTiew controls the idcSearch is pretty much unusable because it laggs/stops the whole arma exe
I think I have a fix for that, will be included in my zeus fix. Makes treeview filtering multithreaded

tranquil iron Nov 8, 2019, 8:38 PM

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And its done. Pushed into my Zeus caching mod.
It makes filtering for all top-level nodes in parallel. So if you only have one top level node it does nothing, but in Zeus where each faction has a node it works quite nicely.

restive girder Nov 8, 2019, 9:16 PM

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is than an intercept thing?

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i probably should've just done my library searching in python.... seeing the library is loaded through python in the first place.

tranquil iron Nov 8, 2019, 9:23 PM

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no. Explicitly removed intercept dependency cuz I wanted it to be dependency less.
0 dependencies.

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https://youtu.be/cV2S4qdXZtg Its this ridiculous.
Okey I forgot to write in the video which side is what, but its pretty obvious

YouTube

Dedmen Miller

Arma TreeView search performance fix

Included in my ArmaZeusCache mod

▶ Play video

restive girder Nov 8, 2019, 9:51 PM

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pretty obvious

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You mean the left is your improved version right?

tranquil iron Nov 8, 2019, 9:51 PM

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Yes! Exactly!

agile sinew Nov 9, 2019, 8:35 AM

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wow

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so idcSearch can actually be used now 😬

burnt token Nov 10, 2019, 9:36 AM

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Awesome work Dedmen. It's a shame stuff like that has to be fixed by community.

mental trench Nov 14, 2019, 7:08 PM

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Is there a yt tutorial how to make guis for arma?

barren apex Nov 14, 2019, 7:23 PM

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http://killzonekid.com/arma-scripting-tutorials-gui-part-1/ ?

weary imp Nov 14, 2019, 10:03 PM

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That is not a yt tutorial though

barren apex Nov 14, 2019, 10:03 PM

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oh yeah right, but I think he edited his request

ocean hazel Nov 14, 2019, 10:05 PM

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I would say, there is no best way to make GUIs, best you can do to teach yourself is to get familiar with this page: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dialog_Control
Then have a look at available types, and have a look at control API (all functions which start with ctrl, control, display, or have these words in them)

agile sinew Nov 15, 2019, 9:45 PM

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is there a way to make GUI the same size (elements and text) for all screen resolutions (excluding multi monitor setup) AND interface sizes?

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so you have a button is 10% of screen (width and height, with text the same)

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(not 100% precise but to keep the relation basically)

weary imp Nov 15, 2019, 9:59 PM

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Sure

barren apex Nov 15, 2019, 9:59 PM

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For same distance in % from the border:
(X * (getResolution select 0) / 1920) * safeZoneW + safeZoneX or something like that I think

weary imp Nov 15, 2019, 10:01 PM

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You can always scale control

barren apex Nov 15, 2019, 10:02 PM

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Did it like that actually: https://github.com/CoopR-Mod/CoopR-Mod/blob/fix/coopr-131/addons/core/coopr_gui_base.hpp#L23-L29
But this will not keep the ratio on the width and height but should be fairly easy to fix I guess

ocean hazel Nov 16, 2019, 1:30 AM

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0.1*safeZoneH is 10% of whole screen height
0.1*safeZoneW is 10% of whole screen width
you can set your text height as 0.04*safeZoneH and it will be the same size relative to screen height

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@agile sinew

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IF you want to try these numbers fast, try ADC (Arma Dialog Creator), it does rendering like in arma

agile sinew Nov 16, 2019, 4:14 AM

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thanks guys! to give some more context: from A2 days people recommended to use:

            x = "(7.5/100)    * SafeZoneW + SafeZoneX";
            y = "(7.5/100)    * SafeZoneH + SafeZoneY";
            w = "(85/100)    * SafeZoneW";
            h = "(85/100)    * SafeZoneH";```
to have this relative addressing with `sizeEx = "0.10 / (getResolution select 5)";` to scale text

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so with A3 the pixel grid stuff came up

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however i was told that you cannot get UI elements and their text remain the same regardless of resolution and interface size

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so size and positioning - most importantly in buttons, lists and other more complex UI controls

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ive seen that A3 uses a combination of getResolution parameter for example for text size

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to be very specific: https://i.gyazo.com/f45ad16f9c6e82f622d0e5d99d2346d5.png

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can you make this look exactly/nearly the same - no matter RES/x-y relation+overall screen space and IGUI size (leaving multi monitor or other special cases out of the picture)

barren apex Nov 16, 2019, 2:44 PM

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I guess you can, you'll still have to deform some element if the aspect ratio of the screen changes but you can chose wich one you want to deform or not (some example: https://imgur.com/a/0lx2PQI)
For text there's surely a way to keep it the same

agile sinew Nov 16, 2019, 2:46 PM

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yeah, no way around that (unless you use the absolute pixel (grid approach)) from what i understand

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https://community.bistudio.com/wikidata/images/2/2c/UI_all.jpg

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from: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SafeZone

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so you either get some stretching, or you leave a bit free area on the sides

barren apex Nov 16, 2019, 3:48 PM

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Definitely possible: https://imgur.com/a/70fsP86 (screenshot taken in arma)
A bit fastidious but at least, everything looks the same (or almost) on all screen

agile sinew Nov 16, 2019, 3:58 PM

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well make sure to show also text and use different elements like buttons, list, control groups, etc

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their positioning of text is the tricky thing

barren apex Nov 16, 2019, 3:59 PM

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~~Yeah but I haven't figured out how to correctly convert text size yet~~ Text is easy in fact, same way as you would to to set the height of your control

barren apex Nov 16, 2019, 4:28 PM

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Inside controlsGroup too since nothing changes except the position referent. Text seems to work too, in list at least, but sizeEx is sizeEx everywhere so no reasons for it to not work.

Here's the test GUI with a list and a button with text inside (some control are not aligned on resize but that's just because I didn't make them do that, take example on joinButton if you want): https://pastebin.com/ACQf9tND

agile sinew Nov 17, 2019, 4:00 AM

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preface: my last testing is from A2:OA days

the reason i am asking for these specifics and actually tested is that back then some of these controls didnt "center" properly (could have be just me too ofc)
so its not about theory, or what can be done, yet if it actually works or not

ocean hazel Nov 17, 2019, 4:01 AM

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Do you mean they might not align perfectly to pixels?

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Like some are 1px wider, some have 1px gap in between them?

agile sinew Nov 17, 2019, 6:59 AM

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no not that small details

barren apex Nov 17, 2019, 11:32 AM

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No, you cannot make them looks exactly the same on all screen, you'll either have some free space or some stretching. What you can do is chose what will be stretched and how to make them look nearly the same.

I don't know what you mean by "not centering correctly" but if you say that a control should be 50% of the screen width and start at 25% of the screen, it will always do, maybe 1px of but that's all

agile sinew Nov 17, 2019, 12:57 PM

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as said aware that exactly same is not possible. its about the text positioning what i am asking someone to confirm

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control size is also not the issue. that all works since A2, but as said back then certain controls acted weird with text positioning in different IGUI size - screen resolution combos

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 9:04 AM

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anyone has insights how to do the nearly 1:1 GUI regardless of screen res/ratio and IGUI/interface size setting?

ocean hazel Nov 25, 2019, 10:06 AM

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You mean... the problem you were describing above?

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Maybe you can describe what is not working how you want it to?

weary imp Nov 25, 2019, 10:15 AM

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1:1 in relation to what, screen? Cant do that as screen could be different aspect and event triple head

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you can absolutely do in relation to viewport

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as it is always 3:4

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but viewport depends on UI size

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so the fonts depend on teh size of viewport

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so your question is quite ambiguous

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Maybe you can describe what is not working how you want it to?
I'll drink to that!

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 11:27 AM

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see here: https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/616327617725071373/645114343167623199

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basically using getResolution in specific ways one should be able to adjust interface to all combos to be basically the same

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yet it seems no one actually knows what it is

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BI itself seems to use also different setups

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 11:33 AM

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Make a 1:1 dialog on all screen is impossible, if the Aspect ratio of the end user differs from the aspect ratio on which the dialog was made, the element will be deformed (but not their position). You can do some math and then decide how you want your element to resize and place themselves.

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 11:35 AM

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as said "nearly"

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again not 1:1

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_resX = getResolution select 0;
_resY = getResolution select 1;
_currentResolution = getresolution select 1;
_coefRes = ((round ((getResolution select 1) / 180)) / 4) max 1;
_currentAspect = getResolution select 4;
_coefUIScale = getResolution select 5;//_currentUISIze

_pxW = 1 / (getResolution select 2);
_xMod = (getResolution select 2) * 0.00001;
_pxH = 1 / (getResolution select 3);
(_this / (getResolution # 5)) * 0.7
case ((getresolution select 5) > 0.8): {}; //--- Exit on Large and Very Large UI sizes, there's no space on the screen

///

rowHeight = "DDD * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";

size = "DDD * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";

sizeEx = "DDD * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";
sizeEX = "DDD * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";

sizeExUnit = "DDD * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";

///

x = "((getResolution select 2) * 0.5 * pixelW)";
x = "((getResolution select 2) * 0.5 * pixelW) - (DDD) * (pixelW * pixelGrid * 0.50)";
x = "((getResolution select 2) * 0.5 * pixelW) + (DDD) * (pixelW * pixelGrid * 0.50)";
x = "((getResolution select 2) * 0.5 * pixelW) + (DDD) * (pixelW * pixelGrid * 0.50) - ((DDD) * (pixelW * pixelGrid * 0.50))";```

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this is BI usage in A3

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 11:37 AM

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/* CHANGE THOSE 2 BELOW IF YOU'RE DESIGNING YOUR GUIS IN ANOTHER SCREEN FORMAT */
#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH   1920
#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT  1080
 
/* HORIZONTAL ADJUSTEMENT MACROS */
#define X_POS(X) (((X * (getResolution select 0)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) / (getResolution select 0))
#define X_FROM_LEFT(X,W,H) (X_POS(X) + WIDTH(W) - WIDTH_FROM_HEIGHT(W,H))
#define WIDTH(W) (((W * (getResolution select 0)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) / (getResolution select 0))
#define WIDTH_FROM_HEIGHT(W,H) (((W / H) * ((H / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) * (getResolution select 1))) / (getResolution select 0))
 
/* VERTICAL ADJUSTEMENT MACROS */
#define Y_POS(Y) (((Y * (getResolution select 1)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) / (getResolution select 1))
#define Y_FROM_BOTTOM(X,Y,W,H) (Y_POS(Y) + HEIGHT(H) - HEIGHT_FROM_WIDTH(W,H))
#define HEIGHT(H) (((H * (getResolution select 1)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) / (getResolution select 1))
#define HEIGHT_FROM_WIDTH(W,H) ((H / W) * ((W / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) * (getResolution select 0))) / (getResolution select 1)

That's how I did it, it takes pixel as input because it's easier for me but as long as I use the correct macro for each element, the UI will basically look the same. Maybe not the best solution but it works great so far

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And for text is use the same command that I used to define the height of the element but I change the Pixel height

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And I may have forgot some steps in those but cannot get my hand on my latest iteration

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 11:45 AM

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this is what AWAR has been using: https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/tWG924s8xz/

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@barren apex thanks. for my understanding: with these you hardcode to a specific screen ratio, no?

#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH 1920
#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT 1080

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 11:47 AM

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Yep, the dimensions in which the dialog was made

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And the other macros are just a bunch of Rule of 3 (idk how we call that in English ¯_(ツ)_/¯) to get how much of the new screen in percent this represents

weary imp Nov 25, 2019, 12:10 PM

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you have to deal in percentages, design your UI where each element size is a percentage of. height of the element is % of screen height, width is a % of screen width. only then your UI will fill whole screen and will align to aspect ratio. Of course you will have to show it only on the middle screen of the triple head

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will suck if you have a strict circle or square to display

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 12:16 PM

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Multiplying by (3 / 4) or (4 / 3) could work but then you may run into other issues

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 1:54 PM

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is there a way to adjust/test the ui scale withoug game restart?

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 2:04 PM

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Windowed mod and then change the res in the video settings

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 2:15 PM

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sorry i think you misunderstood - the ui scale i asked

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not screen res/ratio

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// SizeEx = "(((((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25) * 1)";
// sizeEx = "5.5 * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";
sizeEx = "0.04 / (getResolution select 5)";

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so i tried these three, the first two are from BI+A3, 3rd from A2 (BI?)

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only the last keeps the text size same regardless of ui scale/IGUI size - which makes sense as getRes 5 returns the factor

weary imp Nov 25, 2019, 2:17 PM

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What Heyoxe said only change UI scale

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 4:44 PM

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can one call a function from these fields?

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like to have not as verbose and repeating code?

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 4:44 PM

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I think yes but doesn't hurt to try

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 4:45 PM

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idea is to have a switch case handling for aspect ratio to normalize any setup to an unified modifier

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also any clue if for config defined (rather than mission specific) is "getResolution select X" evaluated only once at game start, or for every mission loading

barren apex Nov 25, 2019, 4:47 PM

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Every time you open the dialog i think

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Every time you run the command to be more precise

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 5:50 PM

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hm will do some tests tomorrow

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class CA_BackgroundWeaponTitle: RscText
{
    colorBackground[] = {"(profilenamespace getvariable ['IGUI_BCG_RGB_R',0])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['IGUI_BCG_RGB_G',1])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['IGUI_BCG_RGB_B',1])","(profilenamespace getvariable ['IGUI_BCG_RGB_A',0.8])"};
    idc = 1001;
    x = "0 * (((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 40)";
    y = "0 * ((((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25)";
    w = "10 * (((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 40)";
    h = "1 * ((((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25)";
    sizeEx = "0.8 * ((((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25)";
};```

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does someone understand the BI system here?

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safezoneW / safezoneH gives you the screen aspect ratio, the min 1.2 is probably a limiter for 3 monitor setup or 16/10
the first number for positioning and width/eight - but in what scale/reference

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like 40/25 grid - how does his system work/translate to designing dialogs?

weary imp Nov 25, 2019, 6:22 PM

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These expressions are the result of preprocessed macros, so it might be difficult to see why when unfolded

agile sinew Nov 25, 2019, 6:37 PM

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well i have the macros, but these arent telling either

granite berry Nov 26, 2019, 12:21 AM

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hi, how can I add a new "item slot" to the inventory which can hold one item?
similar to the radio/map slot but all types of items are allowed in it

agile sinew Nov 26, 2019, 5:51 AM

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@granite berry wrong channel - check #arma3_config

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sizeEx = X * (getResolution select 4) / (getResolution select 5);

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is what we have atm. seems to work across all screen aspect ratios and interface sizes/ui scales

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https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/LPRE5cB9IVnucIA8H4-bI1nUPrISi-o4wXxTsdfFDtw/https/i.gyazo.com/117ef4c4555350b0e5e6ada6c5c834bb.jpg

placid osprey Nov 26, 2019, 9:29 AM

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hey, i know that pic 😂

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And yeah, this worked in Windowed mode and different Resolutions+InterfaceSizes.

- Left/Mid: 16:10 - InterfaceSize: normal + very small 
- Right: 16:9 - InterfaceSize: normal+very small```

short grail Nov 26, 2019, 9:50 AM

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Hey so I wanna start into GUI making for my mission. To start off I have a script that will check the status of 5 helicopters, The Status are "KIA", "BUSY", and "AVAILABLE". I do I get this script to relate with the interface?

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Here is the script in question ```sqf
_Area = Getpos CentreMass;
_HeliAll = nearestObjects [_Area, ["RHS_UH60M_d"],6000,true];
{
_landPos = (getPosATL _x select 2);
_SeaPos = (getPosASL _x select 2);
_HeliName = name _x;
_Status = "unknown";
_EngineStat = isEngineOn _x;
if ((_landPos > 1) OR (_SeaPos > 22.5) OR (_EngineStat isEqualTo True)) Then {
_Status = "BUSY";
if (!Alive _x) then { _Status = "KIA"; };
} Else { _Status = "AVAILABLE";};
Hint Format ["%1 is %2",_HeliName,_Status];
sleep 3;
}ForEach _HeliAll;

barren apex Nov 26, 2019, 9:54 AM

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Here you have all the commands related to GUI: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Command_Group:_GUI_Control
Assuming you're using a normal text, ctrlSetText is what you need

vernal quest Nov 26, 2019, 12:02 PM

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is possible to disable scroll on ctrlGroup control?

barren apex Nov 26, 2019, 12:28 PM

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Yep, set scrollSpeed to 0 in Vscrollbar, hscrollbar iirc

weary imp Nov 26, 2019, 1:17 PM

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Use RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:10 PM

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Isn't the idc also the value which button is in front of the other and if button a's idc is higher then button b's it should trigger button a? with a buttonclickeventhandler

barren apex Nov 28, 2019, 10:13 PM

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I don't think so. Only the order in config matters

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:14 PM

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Ok and which one have to be first?

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First comes is top or last one is on top?

barren apex Nov 28, 2019, 10:15 PM

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They're drawn from top to bottom

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:16 PM

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Thanks for the quick answer, it is working now

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:22 PM

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Second goes on top of first, third on top of second,... etc

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:24 PM

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UNLESS you click on the first one, then it pops up to the front.

barren apex Nov 28, 2019, 10:24 PM

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^

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:25 PM

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So you background should go into
class ControlsBackground, not class controls

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:26 PM

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Unless you use ctrlenable false on non interactive controls

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:26 PM

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Or that

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e.g. in the class yourContro ->
onLoad = "(_this#0) ctrlenable false;";

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:37 PM

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thanks

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_this#0? is that valid syntax?

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:38 PM

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is more or less "select"

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with some limitation. You can use select instead, if you want

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:38 PM

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ok i will accept that, but I' never heard about that

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:38 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/a_hash_b

a hash b

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:40 PM

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oh wow

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:41 PM

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Yeps, i like it. Instantly switched over to use that, when possible (non-macro stuff)

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:42 PM

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But, if I add this line, the button is kinda black shadowed

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like in the gui editor black but it is set to transparent

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:43 PM

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check the colors

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:43 PM

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Button is interactive element you supposed to press, why you want to disable it?

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:44 PM

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enable when ceratin conditions are met, for example

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But for this case, i would go with ctrlEnable

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:44 PM

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I would like to press it, but not that it gets moved in front, there are two buttons, one that covers the complete area and another one that covers only a certain area

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:45 PM

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uhm, a button?

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wut?

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:45 PM

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Doesn’t make sense

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:45 PM

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Yeah, not rly

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:45 PM

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Ok give me a second

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[link deleted]
I want to give a hint if you touch the area of the board. But I want to do something else when I touch the red wire on the right

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:47 PM

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hm

barren apex Nov 28, 2019, 10:47 PM

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Use the mouseClick EH and check if it's in the area

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:48 PM

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that sounds good

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:49 PM

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Buttons are a bad choice for this

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:49 PM

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What should I use instead?

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:49 PM

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Mouse moving

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:49 PM

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currently thinking about onMouseEnter

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:49 PM

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Will give you coordinates

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:50 PM

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combined with inArea / inPolygon check

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:50 PM

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Use inPolygon command

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:51 PM

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inPolygon = define the outer edges of the Red Wire -> if mouse is in there -> set a variable to "true".
In MouseEH -> if(var)then{dostuff}

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:52 PM

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and how do I define the areas? The given coordinate are the one but the values to compare

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:52 PM

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(easiest example)

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:52 PM

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You can log coordinates with some mouse click EH

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:52 PM

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Oh yes that was too simple

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:52 PM

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☝️
Or let a hintsilent run constantly 😄

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Okay, log when clicking is much easier :notlikethis:

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:53 PM

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Use controlsGroup maybe so that it won’t be affected by position on the screen

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:54 PM

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I'm a newbie in gui's I think you need to explain it a bit more for me

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:54 PM

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ctrlgroups is another set of nightmare (pretty usefull though)

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:54 PM

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Elements inside controlsGroup are relative to the group

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:55 PM

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Means: You create 1 ctrlGroup at coords [0.5,0.5], each ctrl inside that controlgroup with X/Y = 0 -> Will be at [0.5,0.5]

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:56 PM

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Oh that is perfect

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:56 PM

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It's kinda like, as if you create a new "safezone"

weary imp Nov 28, 2019, 10:56 PM

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Basically you need to experiment with UI stuff and EHs until you find what you’re looking for

placid osprey Nov 28, 2019, 10:56 PM

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Yeah. And don't get frustrated 😄

flat lark Nov 28, 2019, 10:57 PM

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Ok guys, thanks i highly apprechiate the your help

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 10:36 AM

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Hey. On my dialog I have 2 list boxes, both with variables, and a request button that links to a call. How do I get both of these lists boxes into [something from list 1, something from list 2] call Function?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 10:39 AM

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lbValue, lbCurSel?

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 10:43 AM

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you reckon this will work?

action = "[[lbText [1500,(lbCurSel 1500)]],[lbText [1500,(lbCurSel 1501)]]] Spawn Sov_Fnc_FlyTo"

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 10:51 AM

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No, second one reads from the same box as first

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 10:53 AM

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so thats what was messing me up on my tests.

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thanks for the heads up pal

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 11:22 AM

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if I was to use lbValue instead of lbText. what difference would it make?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 11:30 AM

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When you set value you can’t see it unlike the text which you can see

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 11:34 AM

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ok. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. I have lbAdd for the text, But when I select the text to send to the script, it seems like it sends a string to the script in stead of the Heli

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so when i check with Hint it says objNull, 0

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objNull should be a Heli and 0 should be the marker where the lz is.

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could lbSetData work?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 11:56 AM

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No

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You can’t store object in lb but you can store variable name as string and use that later to get your object from a variable

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:00 PM

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ok so i'll change up my function to accept the string. but do i store it with lbSetData?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:07 PM

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Yes you can

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:08 PM

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Sweet. Is there a better way?

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or one you recommend?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:08 PM

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To do what? I have no idea what is your goal

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:10 PM

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Yeah, fair enough. My main goal is to create a dialog which allows the user to select a helicopter from a pool of helis on the carrier, then fly that heli to the LZ which the players selects.

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:11 PM

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Is the helicopter already created or is created on demand?

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:11 PM

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already created.

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:12 PM

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So it is AI helicopter you want to send on a mission?

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:12 PM

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yep

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:13 PM

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Is it editor placed?

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:13 PM

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yes

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:15 PM

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So you can give it a variable name in editor then access object through
_heli = missionNamespace getVariable [_yourlbdata, objNull]

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Where lbdata would be variable name from editor

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:19 PM

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so i call _heli = missionNamespace getVariable [_yourlbdata, objNull]
in the script that opens the dialog or call it in function that sends the heli on its task?

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 12:33 PM

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probably the last one. And let me assure you, I'm no claivoyant

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 12:46 PM

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Well I do thank for your assistance.

short grail Nov 29, 2019, 2:10 PM

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Ok so right now I am using

[[lbData [1501,(lbCurSel 1501)]],[lbData [1500,(lbCurSel 1500)]]] Spawn Sov_Fnc_FlyTo

this is meant to pass into my function. but according to hint I am getting nothing passed through.

placid osprey Nov 29, 2019, 2:38 PM

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For debuging:
In the listbox configs, try:

onLBSelChanged = "systemchat str _this";```

weary imp Nov 29, 2019, 4:06 PM

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Have you lbSetData your data?

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 2:23 AM

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@weary imp yep

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 5:27 AM

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https://tenor.com/view/who-pinged-me-dont-disturbed-angry-gif-13884480

Tenor

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📎 angry.png

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Ping stays on, even when you edit. Just4Info 🙂

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 5:30 AM

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@placid osprey I'm pretty sure the devs said (somewhere) that they'll fix that. but anyway. my problems now looks like it isn't sending the lbData to the script when i call it.

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 5:31 AM

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Fix what?

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 5:31 AM

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the ping

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 5:31 AM

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Ah, kk.

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Try the alternative lbData way

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/lbData
Alternative Syntax

_control lbData _index```

lbData

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 5:33 AM

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yeah i've tried that.

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 5:33 AM

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That's the one i am using all the time (currently too, btw).
Can't remember why i didn't used the main syntax 🤔

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Check if it finds the ctrl systemchat str [_ctrl]; (why brackets? because: empty strings don't show up as msg 🙂 So even if there is an empty string ("") -> [""] <- output)

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systemchat ANYTHING, if you have no clue, where the problem might be. Begin from the start of the script, then go down, until you found it.

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 5:37 AM

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ok. i am on something. the ctrls are not showing up

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SO. turns out the script can not find _ctrl = (findDisplay 99999) displayCtrl 1500;

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 5:52 AM

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systemchat str [_ctrl]; <--- !! Always use that 🙂

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 6:01 AM

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YES! YES! I found out what was the problem. it was because i was closing the dialog before it was sending the _ctrl's data

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 6:04 AM

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📎 feelsdumbman.png

short grail Nov 30, 2019, 6:07 AM

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Nah mate. I'm feeling big brain after this.
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcSlJx7SgvTTD41LJ9TXiHu1-HH0kazuEU1tFJqwb9xBtfrXudc3

placid osprey Nov 30, 2019, 6:09 AM

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Since you closed the dialog and deleted every var in it ->
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/59/af/22/59af225e830dd7476b476c18a0369fe9.jpg
😛

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(happens to everyone, all good man 😄 )

short grail Dec 1, 2019, 8:37 AM

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How do I update a RscStructuredText?

weary imp Dec 1, 2019, 8:40 AM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ctrlSetStructuredText

ctrlSetStructuredText

short grail Dec 1, 2019, 8:40 AM

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@weary imp thanks again pal.

placid osprey Dec 1, 2019, 9:21 AM

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@short grail
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_Arma_3
bookmark it.
Press Ctrl+F -> type "ctrl" -> All the magic commands

Category:Scripting Commands Arma 3

vernal quest Dec 4, 2019, 11:29 AM

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is possible to make controls group in another controls group?

weary imp Dec 4, 2019, 12:27 PM

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Probably

placid osprey Dec 4, 2019, 2:15 PM

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Yep

drifting rose Dec 4, 2019, 6:23 PM

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@short grail you can delete this post now https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/616327617725071373/650206518267871243

valid dirge Dec 5, 2019, 3:35 AM

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Sup guys, I've been gone a while. Lost all my old files, and now im trying to do something I've done before but isnt working for some reason.
It's a UI on top of a camera view using create display. Im trying to use a a rscText to create a mouse area that can be clicked on. I know its most likely something really dumb.
Be grateful if someone can figure it out.

#

#define true 1
#define false 0

class RscRtsMain
{
    idd= 80000;
    movingEnable = false;
    enableSimulation = true;
    fadein=0;
    duration = 1e+011;
    fadeout=0;
    onLoad= "_this spawn RTS_fnc_InterfaceOnLoad;";

    controlsBackground[]=
    {
        RscBackScreen

    };
    controls[]=
    {
        RscMouseArea
    };
    objects[]=
    {

    };

    class RscBackScreen: IGUIBack
    {
        idc = -1;
        x = 0 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
        y = 0 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
        w = 1 * safezoneW;
        h = 1 * safezoneH;
        colorBackground[] = {0,0,0,0.2};
    };
    class RscMouseArea: RscActiveText
    {

        idc = 80001;
        text = "";
        x = 0.25 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
        y = 0 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
        w = 1 * safezoneW;
        h = 1 * safezoneH;
        action = "hint ""Good job""";
        onMouseButtonDown = "[_this] spawn RTS_fnc_MouseBtnDown;";
        colorShadow[] = {0,0,0,0.5};
    };
};

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ive tried both rscText and ActiveText and also onMouseButtonDown and onMouseDown

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also tried adding them through EH. That's the fnc that's called onLoad

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The action on the active text works when i hit space bar over the ctrl

vernal quest Dec 5, 2019, 9:07 AM

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@valid dirge why u not use rscButton?

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try add [_this] spawn RTS_fnc_MouseBtnDown; to action

valid dirge Dec 5, 2019, 5:44 PM

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Bc I also need mousebuttonup and for it to return which mouse button was pressed.

vernal quest Dec 5, 2019, 5:54 PM

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@valid dirge try just delete a action = "hint ""Good job""";

valid dirge Dec 5, 2019, 9:30 PM

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Working till later TN, but I'll check when I get home. Could swear I took it out for rsctext and tried but we'll see.

weak jewel Dec 5, 2019, 10:49 PM

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does anyone have an up to date list of properties for the map gui control?
arma is giving me errors about missing stuff that's not in here https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dialog_Control_Map and it's kinda hard to fix it without even knowing what type the missing element is supposed to be

valid dirge Dec 5, 2019, 11:06 PM

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This mod has an option to export all gui base classes. https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=623475643

weak jewel Dec 5, 2019, 11:20 PM

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including the ones the gui editor export omits? i have that already but i just assumed it was the regular gui editor export

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oh my, it does indeed, thanks a lot, this made my GUI editing about 1357% less tedious :D

valid dirge Dec 5, 2019, 11:33 PM

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The gui editor is trash

ocean hazel Dec 5, 2019, 11:49 PM

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Try Arma Dialog Creator, it's best of what I've seen

weak jewel Dec 5, 2019, 11:51 PM

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yea, i quickly found that one out, i've been making things by just text for now, with a ton of
1 start scenario
2 see what it complains about
3 put that in (often guessing the type/class)
4 repeat

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i generally steer away from wysiwyg editors but since you recommend it i'll check it out :)

ocean hazel Dec 5, 2019, 11:55 PM

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In my practice, it lacks certain flexibility of plain config editing. I generally use it to place things initially. After that I do edits to the config manually, everything ADC could not handle. Then when I need to reposition stuff, I go back to ADC, reposition, export again, and copy-paste the positions.

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Not ideal but... 🤷

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Better than BI's provided "Tool"*
||*Can barely classify that as a useful tool, probably Ok for a project for several weekends||

weak jewel Dec 5, 2019, 11:59 PM

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does it support pixelgrid?

ocean hazel Dec 5, 2019, 11:59 PM

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🤔

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No I think it does not

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safezone and absolute coordinates only AFAIK

weak jewel Dec 5, 2019, 11:59 PM

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aw, then it's kinda out for me, i like the pixelgrid too much

ocean hazel Dec 6, 2019, 12:00 AM

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well... it can evaluate SQF expressions so it could be useful for preview with different GUI sizes

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It renders stuff like in arma as I know

weak jewel Dec 6, 2019, 12:01 AM

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so i could basically paste the code in there and use it only as a quicker renderer? because that would actually be very useful

ocean hazel Dec 6, 2019, 12:01 AM

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sort of yes, I am not sure if it supports all the commands

placid osprey Dec 6, 2019, 12:01 AM

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@weak jewel remember to try pixelgrid in several InterfaceSizes, Resolutions and AspectRatios. You will be suprised :/

weak jewel Dec 6, 2019, 12:02 AM

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i haven't run into any trouble with it yet, but yea, i keep testing it in different modes from time to time

valid dirge Dec 6, 2019, 12:08 AM

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I usually draw something out in paint, get it all in game and then break out the calculator. The movement translation is way too much in the editor.

weak jewel Dec 6, 2019, 12:10 AM

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I usually start out with quick drawings on post-its and eyeball the coords from that, and then tweak it in place after it's all in there

valid dirge Dec 6, 2019, 6:24 AM

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can someone please tell me whats wrong with this?

_display = findDisplay 46 createDisplay "RscDisplayEmpty";
_mouseArea = _display ctrlCreate ["RscText", 8000]; 
_mouseArea ctrlSetPosition [0,0,1,1]; 
_mouseArea ctrlSetBackgroundColor [0,0,0,0.5]; 
_mouseArea ctrlCommit 0; 
_mouseEH = _mouseArea ctrlAddEventHandler["MouseButtonDown","hint str _this"];

vernal quest Dec 6, 2019, 9:08 AM

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how i can import this to gui editor?```
/* #Luduwo
$[
1.063,
["1234567890",[["0","0","1","1"],"0.025/2","0.04/2","GUI_GRID"],0,0,0],
[1103,"line_horizontal",[1,"",["-0.00328125 * safezoneW","0.1795 * safezoneH","1.00289 * safezoneW","0.0015 * safezoneH"],[-1,-1,-1,-1],[0.3,0.34,0.37,0.8],[-1,-1,-1,-1],"","-1"],[]],
[1105,"group_prices_main",[1,"",["-0.0721878 * safezoneW","-0.0165 * safezoneH","0.549141 * safezoneW","0.6435 * safezoneH"],[-1,-1,-1,-1],[-1,-1,-1,-1],[-1,-1,-1,-1],"","-1"],[]],
[1106,"the_grup_right_infos",[1,"",["0.482109 * safezoneW","-0.0165 * safezoneH","0.216563 * safezoneW","0.6435 * safezoneH"],[-1,-1,-1,-1],[-1,-1,-1,-1],[-1,-1,-1,-1],"","-1"],[]]
]
*/

vernal quest Dec 6, 2019, 11:22 AM

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@valid dirge is working for me

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return ```
[Control #8000,0,0.261364,0.421329,false,false,false]

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just change RscText to RscStructuredText

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as i understand RscText is something like background control

ocean tangle Dec 6, 2019, 5:31 PM

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Hello I need help, I am trying to improve the HUD of my mission but I am struggling, my goal is to have an image as background under rsctext dynamic, I am trying with Rscpicture but I am doing something wrong

ocean tangle Dec 6, 2019, 5:52 PM

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I don't know how to keep the aspect ratio
I don't know how to put the image under the text at moment I changed idc or the definition order and still images is above the rsctext
I dont know why crtlShow false hide the text but the image is always visible.

please help

ocean tangle Dec 6, 2019, 6:31 PM

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ok I've found how to keep aspect ratio
I managed to hide/show using setText and controcommit
I've managed to put under the text

I need to know how to keep the real size+aspect ratio of the image now, cos yes aspect ratio is correct but the size is not the same I am trying random value but I really wish there is a way to make it without this huge frustrating struggling.

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:02 AM

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I did it but it's painful trying pixel by pixel, there is no way to keep size/aspect ratio of an image in GUI ?

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:07 AM

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You mean keeping the size (x,y) of an image?

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:10 AM

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yes if one imagine is 512x512 I want to have it 512x512

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keepaspectratio don't stretch the image but don't make it the same size as original PAA

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:11 AM

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So 256x256

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Just simply divide it

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you need to recalc to 4:3

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So if you with is 256 (4), the height must be 256*0.75 (3)
(or the other way around, i always mix that)

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:14 AM

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are you expert with GUI would you like to save me some head banging on the wall

#

with this code:

#

class hudtopbar : RscPictureKeepAspect
{
idc=1201;
//style = 2096;
text = "";
colorText[] = {1,1,1,0.7};
x = 0.253892 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
y = 0.000 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
w = 0.485153 * safezoneW;
h = 0.495153 * safezoneH;
};

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I got something close to the 512x512

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so I guess it's the width that should be less than height

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but

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:18 AM

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Play around with this:

x = 0 * (((getResolution select 4) min 1.2) / 40) + (safezoneX + (safezoneW - ((getResolution select 7) min 1.2))/2)
y = 0 * ((((getResolution select 4) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25) + (safezoneY + (safezoneH - (((getResolution select 7) min 1.2) / 1.2))/2)
w = 1 * (((getResolution select 4) min 1.2) / 40);
h = 1 * ((((getResolution select 4) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25);```

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For other examples: Check the unpacked UI_F Folder. There are some more informations.

#

Those will be your friends too:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SafeZone
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/getResolution

SafeZone

getResolution

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:21 AM

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I read all

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but it's simple I get a lot of frustration dealing with GUI

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:22 AM

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as i said: Play around with the code i posted above.

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:22 AM

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2 hours to do 1 image as background

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I didn't even know that those were pixels

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:22 AM

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Welcome to the world of UIs 🙂

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Not "that" hard (when you understood the basics), just timeconsuming af.

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:23 AM

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I am lucky I just miss 1 more image then the UI is complete

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if you accept my friend request I show you the result

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:24 AM

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You know what's funny? change to WindowMode, change the resolution to a different AspectRatio (e.g. Resolution from 16:9 to 16:10) and InterfaceSize, restart your game.

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Nah, off to bed in a sec.

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:25 AM

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I knwo I will not do that,

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my gui will be for smallsize ui

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I don't plan to do for all other sizes

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I don't want to spend the precious time of this life doing that

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I am super convinced that there could be a much simple and wysiwyg mode

#

year 2020

placid osprey Dec 7, 2019, 1:26 AM

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It's based on stuff from 2001, sooo :/

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anyway, gl man. o7 i am off

ocean tangle Dec 7, 2019, 1:27 AM

#

thanks for help

agile sinew Dec 7, 2019, 9:01 AM

#

how to make a list/combo box with multi selection possible?
and how with that has three states (whitelisted, not selected, blacklisted)

ocean hazel Dec 7, 2019, 12:18 PM

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@agile sinew search multi selection, you will see you have asked that some time ago already xD

#

kju09/18/2019
is there a multi selection combo box or similar, or do you have to piece it together yourself?

agile sinew Dec 7, 2019, 12:27 PM

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sorry bad wording

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i meant you have a list - normally its just on, off/selected, not selected. yet i need three states

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think of a list of game modes to black or whitelist them

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or tick on/off or any. see: https://dev.arma3.com/assets/img/post/images/oprep_2_concept.jpg

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BI uses here three buttons (difficulty)

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are two lists (one for whitelist, another for blacklist)

ocean hazel Dec 7, 2019, 12:30 PM

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Oh I get it I think. You can make your own advanced list box with a group and multiple rows of buttons then

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Maybe you can do what you want with three listboxes if it will help get things more organized. So in the center listbox you have all items. 'Left arrow' button moves the item to the left listbox (blacklisted items), 'right arrow' button moves the item to the right listbox (whitelisted item)

weary imp Dec 9, 2019, 8:15 AM

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@agile sinew so you want list of game types and be able to choose which type you prefer to play, which you don't mind to play and which you don't want to play? Then have a normal list box, then on 1 click change item color to green, on second click to red, on third click to neutral (while also setting data on the item). Then in the end iterate through all entries and read data and do your thing.

agile sinew Dec 9, 2019, 8:16 AM

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@weary imp thanks. such virtual state list using colors is what we probably end up with

weary imp Dec 9, 2019, 8:19 AM

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you can also add to item description like
displayed: CTF
1st click - displayed green: CTF (Preferred)
2nd click - displayed red: CTF (Avoid)
3rd click - displayed neutral: CTF

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or

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use lbPicture and have empty box, box with a green tick, box with a red cross

agile sinew Dec 9, 2019, 2:07 PM

#

true 👍

wicked talon Dec 9, 2019, 10:06 PM

#

Is there any way of identifying what RscDisplays are currently visible?

#

Got one showing up and I'm having issues identifying it

#

Image: https://imgur.com/a/Ut28Azk

agile sinew Dec 10, 2019, 1:43 AM

#

tried to output https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers#onMouseHolding yet ?

User Interface Event Handlers

weary imp Dec 10, 2019, 4:50 AM

#

Is there any way of identifying what RscDisplays are currently visible?

allDisplays

nimble steppe Dec 11, 2019, 2:33 PM

#

Is there a better action menu than the default one? In better I mean something that is more fluid rather having to remember numbers to get to say..."the radio menu without having to hit 0 twice?"

#

I guess what I'm asking for is there a replacement for the default action menu?

agile sinew Dec 11, 2019, 3:27 PM

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radial menu like in ACE or other standalone mods

ocean hazel Dec 11, 2019, 3:29 PM

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I think he means not the layout of menu as GUI framework... but rather a complete solution which replaces the default command menu

nimble steppe Dec 11, 2019, 3:30 PM

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The most I've used the ACE radial menu is when joining a squad in single player. I'm thinking more on the lines of what @ocean hazel stated

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kind of like an all in one command menu, Didn't OFP have a radio command menu

ocean hazel Dec 11, 2019, 3:30 PM

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Maybe this? https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=491016790

nimble steppe Dec 11, 2019, 3:30 PM

#

radial

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hmm C2 seems to be what I'm looking for. I'll check it out thanks

agile sinew Dec 11, 2019, 4:06 PM

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for AI commanding there are a few "replacements"

plush root Dec 12, 2019, 3:27 AM

#

Anyone around that time to make some ui's for a life server

valid dirge Dec 12, 2019, 3:29 AM

#

You paying?

plush root Dec 12, 2019, 3:33 AM

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if they are good

barren apex Dec 12, 2019, 6:25 AM

#

#creators_recruiting

left willow Dec 12, 2019, 10:56 AM

#

Does anybody know of an GUI editor that just gives me coordinates?
I know about the Arma Dialog Creator Tool and I use it myself for quite some time now but cleaning the file it produces of everything except positions is very annoying...

#

Also it apparently does not support the pixel grid system which its quite sad since it makes more sense in my head then this weird safeZone stuff... (Id rather draw my UI on a piece of paper and just use calculator to get the anchor points but well... haven't found a formula to do that yet)

left willow Dec 12, 2019, 11:38 AM

#

Like some way to convert "normal" coordinates from any WYSIWYG editor to ArmA 3 GUI cords would be nice

barren apex Dec 12, 2019, 11:50 AM

#

Well ADC is doing pretty fine.
I've also made a tool but it's less complete than ADC (although it's easier for me to "template" my GUI and changing manually value if needed) but it's better when you have predefined some base class: https://forums.bohemia.net/forums/topic/225459-adobe-xd-to-arma-3-convert-your-adobe-xd-guis-to-arma-3-sort-of/

For some way to convert from "normal" (Pixels) coordinates to safezones

/* CHANGE THOSE 2 BELOW IF YOU'RE DESIGNING YOUR GUIS IN ANOTHER SCREEN FORMAT */
#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH    1920
#define ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT    1080

/* HORIZONTAL ADJUSTEMENT MACROS */
#define X_POS(X) (((X * (getResolution select 0)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) / (getResolution select 0))
#define X_FROM_LEFT(X,W,H) (X_POS(X) + WIDTH(W) - WIDTH_FROM_HEIGHT(W,H))
#define WIDTH(W) (((W * (getResolution select 0)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) / (getResolution select 0))
#define WIDTH_FROM_HEIGHT(W,H) (((W / H) * ((H / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) * (getResolution select 1))) / (getResolution select 0))

/* VERTICAL ADJUSTEMENT MACROS */
#define Y_POS(Y) (((Y * (getResolution select 1)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) / (getResolution select 1))
#define Y_FROM_BOTTOM(X,Y,W,H) (Y_POS(Y) + HEIGHT(H) - HEIGHT_FROM_WIDTH(W,H))
#define HEIGHT(H) (((H * (getResolution select 1)) / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_HEIGHT) / (getResolution select 1))
#define HEIGHT_FROM_WIDTH(W,H) ((H / W) * ((W / ORIGINAL_SCREEN_WIDTH) * (getResolution select 0))) / (getResolution select 1)

placid osprey Dec 12, 2019, 3:40 PM

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Why do you limit yourself to fixed sizes?

left willow Dec 12, 2019, 4:27 PM

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@barren apex Sounds like an interesting tool. Never heard of Adobe XD though. Will look into it.
Those macros also seem to be very helpful. Though if I convert normal pixels to safeZones, isn't that basically what the pixel grids already do?

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ADC also works quite okayish for me but its a bit annoying to use if I really only need to see and set the positions of my controls and nothing else.

opaque lynx Dec 12, 2019, 8:37 PM

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this is a more appropriate forum... Q: when you style = ST_RIGHT; on a textual UI resource, is that right aligned in the w of the resource? does that change the x component at all? i.e. your x is still "left of" the resource? or is the x then on the "right of" the resource?

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 8:42 PM

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It should align the text inside the box to the right of the box, there are left/center/right options like you would imagine it to work with text alignment anywhere

opaque lynx Dec 12, 2019, 8:43 PM

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right I understand that much. but the actual x y coordinates are still the same?

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just aligned within the w

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 8:47 PM

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x,y coordinates of what? Of the text inside?

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Or of the box?

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Style of a control does not alter the x,y,w,h of the control

opaque lynx Dec 12, 2019, 8:49 PM

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of the resource.

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 8:49 PM

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do you mean 'resource' - the control (button, static, etc) ?

opaque lynx Dec 12, 2019, 8:49 PM

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yes. so in other words, alignment styling just impacts within the w of the resource.

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 8:50 PM

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yes, style changed only appearence, does not change the position of the control

opaque lynx Dec 12, 2019, 8:50 PM

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awesome that's what I needed to know. cheers.

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 8:51 PM

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I assume you thought that, perhaps, arma can snap a button to the right of its parent control, for instance. No, arma does not have such layout capabilities.

placid osprey Dec 12, 2019, 10:52 PM

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ctrlGroup

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 11:01 PM

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It's not what I meant

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I meant like in some advanced layout UIs you can snap things to each other

placid osprey Dec 12, 2019, 11:02 PM

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Like, where you have a proper editor?

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 11:03 PM

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Yes!

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Well I know QT can do layouts through code procedurally

placid osprey Dec 12, 2019, 11:04 PM

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That doesn't exist, stop lying!!!!111

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 11:04 PM

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Not at Bohemia, no 😄

placid osprey Dec 12, 2019, 11:04 PM

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😉

ocean hazel Dec 12, 2019, 11:08 PM

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Well, not for us at least...

opaque lynx Dec 13, 2019, 1:03 AM

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here's a question, how do you control tab order?

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@ocean hazel the closest thing to a "layout" manager I have come by in A3 is to define your geometry up front, and interrelate as desired. so if I make an adjustment to resource A, the same adjustment is theoretically had by B without needing to touch a thing. then sprinkle those definitions in throughout the classes as needed.

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however, for a layout manager, panels, stacks, etc, would be nice.

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certainly would recommend against intense formulas in the resource definitions. far too brittle to layout changes.

ocean hazel Dec 13, 2019, 1:07 AM

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What do you mean 'tab order'?

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Yes you can do a similar thing as you describe )with formulas) through script too, for instance I have made a 'window' (like in windows) which has the top bar, close button, and similar things, which resizes to its payload

opaque lynx Dec 13, 2019, 1:18 AM

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Tab order, literally what it sounds like. When you tab through a dialog, in what order the controls receive their focus.

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This is like UI design 101, really.

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I'm not positive, is that the controls[] = {} array?

valid dirge Dec 13, 2019, 1:31 AM

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Yes, Controls are added in order by that array no matter the order or idc you define in the classes

opaque lynx Dec 13, 2019, 1:35 AM

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Added in that order? Or "tab order"?

ocean hazel Dec 13, 2019, 1:51 AM

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Better check yourself. I think they will de added in that order, and you will tab through them in that order as well. IDC should not be relevant to the tab order.

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I thought you meant like how to make some multi tab thing

weary imp Dec 13, 2019, 6:02 AM

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Yes, Controls are added in order by that array no matter the order or idc you define in the classes

Let’s straighten this up before someone gets confused. controls[] only valid if there is no class Controls, then the order of controls is taken from this array, if there is class Controls then controls[] is ignored and the order is the same as the order in which controls appear inside class Controls

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Same for objects

grand shell Dec 14, 2019, 1:46 AM

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hi there a way to learn how to customize ui? like tutorial or somethin?

ocean hazel Dec 14, 2019, 2:00 AM

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What exactly do you want to know?

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Just how to make GUIs in arma?

grand shell Dec 14, 2019, 2:34 AM

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how to customize it like the hud and stuff I not sure how to explain but like let say health bar if I wanted to reposition and redesign it

weary imp Dec 14, 2019, 6:55 AM

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There is no health bar in Arma 3

barren apex Dec 14, 2019, 9:25 AM

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He's probably talking about the life healthcare or whatever. You can look KK's tutorials on GUI, it will give you a good basis.

ruby swallow Dec 14, 2019, 5:35 PM

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The XML framework is there @ocean hazel
Only my time is not

mental trench Dec 16, 2019, 1:39 PM

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hello , i wanna make gui script ,mm.. ex: it can restart just user self by voting , so i wanna made this ↑↑↑↑ please help me !!

mental trench Dec 16, 2019, 2:26 PM

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mm i want to make in my server users can vote the restart also 50%up yes 50%down no

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i want to make please help

weary imp Dec 16, 2019, 2:37 PM

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Voting is part of the engine, you can set it up on the server now

mental trench Dec 17, 2019, 1:18 PM

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@weary imp No... i want just some text pop out to everyone

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that is my ques..

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...

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🙂

ember gulch Dec 17, 2019, 9:21 PM

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Hey guys I want to modify e Arma GUI with an mod (add a button) but when I over write the Config name nothing happen. The GUI I want to modify is RscDisplayDynamicGroups. Is there some thing that I have to consider or add?

agile sinew Dec 18, 2019, 6:50 AM

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@ember gulch pastebin your config

opaque lynx Dec 18, 2019, 6:36 PM

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Q: when dealing with sizeEx, what is considered a 1, that is, base, nominal, default, whatever, sizeEx value? For frame of reference, in terms of the A3 displays GUI_GRID_X et al definitions.

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in other words, I want to make it smaller, let's say, by some nominal, predictable dimension, i.e. 0.5 * GUI_GRID_X ?

placid osprey Dec 18, 2019, 6:39 PM

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sizeEx = 0.04 * safezoneW for example

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So sizeEx = num * GUI_GRID_W is probably the line you are looking for.
Yet, i wouldn't use the grid-stuff, since it changes with the resolution and could end up in borked up interfaces on different Resolutions/Interfacesizes

opaque lynx Dec 18, 2019, 6:50 PM

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I think I got it sorted. So we go with something like (0.75 * GUI_GRID_CENTER_H) for our common H dimension. Then something like (0.85 * KPLIB_COMMON_GRID_BASE_H) for a sensible "small" dimension. For starters. And adjust from there, larger or smaller, accordingly.

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@placid osprey Meh, I disagree. That's the point of using those definitions. You tame the resolution beast and arrest it in one place.

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in fact I build on that through a couple of layers of definitions in order to isolate the "layout" aspect in one place.

placid osprey Dec 18, 2019, 6:55 PM

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"a couple of layers"
vs
0.1 * safezoneW + safezoneX to keep it in one place/size.

But sure, do what you think is the best for you. I won't stop ya. Just remember to test it in several Resolutions, Aspect Ratios and InterfaceSizes.

opaque lynx Dec 18, 2019, 7:43 PM

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@placid osprey Sure. Rinse and repeat that a dozen times and come back to me with the story of how brittle that is to responding to overall "layout" changes.

placid osprey Dec 18, 2019, 7:44 PM

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Dude, what is your problem?

weary imp Dec 19, 2019, 2:09 AM

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sizeEx 1 should make letter as big as height of viewport

ember gulch Dec 20, 2019, 10:29 PM

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@agile sinew https://pastebin.com/SZFbrWVA

agile sinew Dec 21, 2019, 1:53 AM

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@ember gulch where is your cfgPatches header?

mental trench Dec 23, 2019, 2:29 PM

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Can anyone show me or link a simple small script interactable menu that I can use to learn from. I’m not sure how to actually go about this.

Can be as simple as a background with 1 button lol. Anything is appreciated

mental trench Dec 23, 2019, 10:21 PM

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Hope this is not too much to ask^

placid osprey Dec 23, 2019, 10:29 PM

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?
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ctrlCreate

ctrlCreate

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Check the examples

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Also:
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Scripting_Commands_Arma_3
ctrl+F -> type "ctrl" -> F3 == Your friend forever

Category:Scripting Commands Arma 3

austere mirage Dec 25, 2019, 3:36 AM

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Working on the pilotview for my aircraft.
What controls the marked points showing? https://gyazo.com/68baaae9614b4883cc15d8d87be86b77

Ive tried changing unitInfoType = "RscOptics_CAS_Pilot"; //rsc with DriverOptics elements driverWeaponsInfoType = "RscOptics_CAS_01_TGP"; //resource with Weapon UI elements that will be used when looking through the pilotCamera with 0 results.

rigid sand Dec 28, 2019, 3:24 AM

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How would I go about making a mini-map GUI that doesn’t pause input

restive girder Dec 28, 2019, 2:25 PM

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RscTitles

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"somethingsomething" cutRsc ["yourMinimapClass", "PLAIN"] ezpz

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put your UI class within RscTitles

weary imp Dec 29, 2019, 11:04 AM

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Someone here asked before for a simple GUI example to start with. https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/ctrlCreate Example 5, knock yourself out

ctrlCreate

opaque lynx Dec 30, 2019, 6:43 PM

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hello, is it possible to add a picture to a button, literally is of type "button", that is, 0x1.

weary imp Dec 30, 2019, 7:29 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-Buttons

DialogControls-Buttons

ocean hazel Dec 31, 2019, 1:20 AM

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Do mouseEnter/exit, buttonDown event handlers work with static controls?

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:16 AM

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Hello, HNY for those where it is. Need to know, for an edit/input text box, is there an event that indicates "text changed"?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:16 AM

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i think so yeah

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:16 AM

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hmm, well, I am reviewing, I do not see one? https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers

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I see for things like LB or LNB selections changed, that sort of thing.

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I suppose I could watch for onKeyUp for the characters of interest and monitor that way?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:17 AM

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That's what I did

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Why exactly do you need the event?

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:18 AM

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for that, basically. on the event, evaluate some other controls, enable/disable buttons, etc, in response.

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:19 AM

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Oh okey, there's also this event: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/User_Interface_Event_Handlers#onChar which only detect characters

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:20 AM

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and are those ASCII _charCode?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:21 AM

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I think the code are these one: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DIK_KeyCodes

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:21 AM

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perfect, thanks.

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versus, I suppose, onIMEChar. does this happen in what relation to the text in the control having updated?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:39 AM

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I don't understand your question, can you rephrase it?

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:40 AM

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what is the timing of onChar? i.e. before/during/after the control text having changed?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:41 AM

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[Key Press]-->[Control Update]-->[Event]-->[Key Release] seems to be the logical order to me

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Yeah, I'm almost pretty sure that's the order I've sent, I was able to get the update text from the event callback

opaque lynx Jan 1, 2020, 12:53 AM

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perfect, works pretty well. now... if I wanted to constrain the key entry for a digits only? plus navigation keys, like TAB, etc... then I use key press? or key down? and respond with handled?

barren apex Jan 1, 2020, 12:53 AM

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Yep, keyDown

olive schooner Jan 6, 2020, 7:00 PM

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If I use the Arma 3 UI editor, how should I define the parent classes for the controls like:

...
};```

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I know I can export the base classes from the editor. but should I include them for each dialog I create?

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Or is there a smarter way?

topaz talon Jan 6, 2020, 7:53 PM

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include it once before your dialogs, not once per dialog don't get me wrong.

stark compass Jan 7, 2020, 4:36 AM

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hey, would anyone like to help me out on why the sidearrows for RscListNBox are not showing?

here is my dialog
https://pastebin.com/uQ4haTYw

and here are my defines:

https://pastebin.com/fC7pxTXj

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everything else appears fine, but not the side-arrows

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the dialog is nested in

class sah_inventory_dialog
{
    idd = 1999;
    movingEnabled = false;
    class controls
    {
        //////HERE!!!///////
      };
};```

weary imp Jan 7, 2020, 5:31 AM

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Try https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-ListBoxes

DialogControls-ListBoxes

stark compass Jan 7, 2020, 7:00 AM

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been there, tried that. It must be something i'm not getting

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drawSideArrows is true and idcLeft/Right have valid idc's

stark compass Jan 7, 2020, 3:44 PM

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what is the practical difference between listnbox and listbox?

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because as you can see, i have drawSideArrows true but it wont draw any arrows

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it DOES reserve the space for the arrows

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but it wont draw them

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neither does interacting with the reserved space yeild any actions on the idc's

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by this point, im willing to make a donation if somebody manages to make these arrows draw

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ask for any code, it's an unlicensed project anyways

restive girder Jan 7, 2020, 7:11 PM

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listNBox is multcolumn

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listbox is single

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In general unless you're trying to do very basic stuff, a scripted setup with control groups is almost always better

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there's a lot of inconsistencies and limitations with those listboxes that might start giving issues. One i always ran into was the lack of being able to set the size of pictures

stark compass Jan 7, 2020, 7:24 PM

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the pictures are perfect size for what im going for

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couldn't have been better

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some things i want to know

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https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/663812333017104385/663996354888204319/milling.gif

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you see what im going for

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and im struggling to get the side-arrows to appear

stark compass Jan 9, 2020, 2:55 AM

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slowly but surely

https://imgur.com/a/aRohcU3

placid osprey Jan 9, 2020, 4:38 AM

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dat A2 feeling

stark compass Jan 9, 2020, 6:49 AM

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now if i just got these pesky side-arrows working

placid osprey Jan 9, 2020, 6:59 AM

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Wich ones?

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<<< and >>> ?

stark compass Jan 9, 2020, 7:35 AM

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no no, these side ones that are supposed to be draw next to the selection

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really scratching my head on this one

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to the right and the left, so i can use them for inventory interactions

placid osprey Jan 9, 2020, 7:36 AM

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uhm, mark it pls. I have no idea wich ones you mean

stark compass Jan 9, 2020, 7:38 AM

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can't get to the website right now

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community.bistudio.com/

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is down

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@placid osprey can i DM you?

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jsut the pictures, i cant send anything here

empty mountain Jan 9, 2020, 7:39 AM

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https://web.archive.org/ helps when wiki is (regularly) down

placid osprey Jan 9, 2020, 7:40 AM

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ah, nice

stoic delta Jan 9, 2020, 5:56 PM

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So I'm trying to make a toolbox and it is not representing the strings at all. here is the class:

class tb_vehicleClass: RscToolbox
        {
            idc = 1800;
            //style = 2098;
            style = 2;
            x = 0.25601 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
            y = 0.71 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
            w = 0.179782 * safezoneW;
            h = 0.084 * safezoneH;
            colorText[] = {0, 1, 0, 1};
            colorTextSelect[] = {1, 0, 0, 1};
            colorBackground[] = {0, 0, 1, 0.3};
            colorSelectedBg[] = {0, 0, 0, 0.2};
            rows = 2;
            columns = 3;
            //strings[] = {"res\LightVicApp.paa", "res\HeavyApp.paa", "res\BoatApp.paa", "res\SupportApp.paa", "res\HeliApp.paa", "res\PlaneApp.paa"};
            strings[] = {"Light", "Heavy", "Naval", "Support", "Helo", "Fixedwing"};
            checked_strings[] = {"[Light]", "[Heavy]", "[Naval]", "[Support]", "[Helo]", "[Fixedwing]"};
        };```

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any idea why i am having an issue?

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All I am getting is a toolbox without any strings on the buttons. Just the buttons themselves

stoic delta Jan 10, 2020, 1:33 AM

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Ignore above, i fixed it

ocean hazel Jan 15, 2020, 11:13 AM

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Is it maybe a known thing that main display event handlers get removed?
(finddisplay 46) displayAddEventHandler ["KeyDown", {

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For some reason it starts to fail after several hours randomly

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Or what is a safer way to check key presses... maybe cba has that, need to check

placid osprey Jan 15, 2020, 11:30 AM

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I assume some script removes it (by ID)
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/displayRemoveAllEventHandlers
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/displayRemoveEventHandler

displayRemoveAllEventHandlers

displayRemoveEventHandler

ocean hazel Jan 15, 2020, 11:48 AM

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That would be a shame but that's the only way I know

agile sinew Jan 15, 2020, 3:16 PM

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tried inputAction yet?

tranquil iron Jan 15, 2020, 3:21 PM

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maybe cba has that
CBA uses keydown on the display. like you do

ocean hazel Jan 15, 2020, 6:14 PM

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Thanks @agile sinew I will try an on each frame handler with inputAction instead

agile sinew Jan 15, 2020, 6:22 PM

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@ocean hazel you can combine also keyDown with inputAction

ocean hazel Jan 15, 2020, 6:28 PM

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Oh wait, inputAction accepts arma actions, not raw keys...

agile sinew Jan 15, 2020, 6:35 PM

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raw keys is usually a bad idea due to ppl customized controls

barren apex Jan 15, 2020, 6:36 PM

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Yeah, using raw key is a bad idea, better stay with Arma Custom actions/CBA Keyhandler or write your own if you want more support than the CBA one offers (although I don't see much missing from the CBA one)

ocean hazel Jan 15, 2020, 6:38 PM

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Will look into cba, thanks

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Btw... can't check now... which display is the virtual arsenal? Also 46?

quiet arrow Jan 15, 2020, 6:50 PM

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LineSpacing = 1; for listBox controls does nothing?

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/DialogControls-ListBoxes

DialogControls-ListBoxes

placid osprey Jan 16, 2020, 4:00 PM

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ehm, lemme check, i got one open currently

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Hm, as marked on the page "working with type=102 (CT_LISTNBOX=102)" -> Nope, i can see no diff here

burnt token Jan 16, 2020, 4:05 PM

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Maybe A2 only thomp

placid osprey Jan 16, 2020, 4:06 PM

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probably.

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i tested
LineSpacing = 2.0;
LineSpacing = 1.0;
LineSpacing = 0.1;
No difference

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@quiet arrow

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rowHeight = int;

is the one, that should be used for that.

quiet arrow Jan 16, 2020, 5:22 PM

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Oh I missed that. Gone test that ty

fluid oracle Jan 17, 2020, 6:32 PM

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Hello There! By any chance anyone knows the path (IDD/IDC) to the hint text?

placid osprey Jan 17, 2020, 6:34 PM

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uff, erm... wait a sec. I just remember that it was a structuredText

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class RscHintGroup: RscControlsGroupNoScrollbars
{
    idc = 12957;
    class controls
    {
        class Title: RscStructuredText
        {
            idc = 11657;
...
        class Hint: RscStructuredText
        {
            idc = 11757;
...

I think it was this @fluid oracle
*

fluid oracle Jan 17, 2020, 6:37 PM

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yeah, found it. I assume it should be in #46 display? Does not seem to work though.

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I have also found IGUI #301, could not find it

placid osprey Jan 17, 2020, 6:39 PM

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It's in
class RscTitles So without the name set in the ui namespace ¯_(ツ)_/¯

fluid oracle Jan 17, 2020, 6:39 PM

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tbh, what I really want to do is a handy custom hint function which makes the hint text appear only for a given time (in seconds), but for that I would need to check if the actual hint text changed

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oh

placid osprey Jan 17, 2020, 6:42 PM

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RscAdvancedHint is also in RscTitles :/

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wait a sec

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class RscDisplayCommonHint: RscDisplayCommon
{
    name = "Common";
    onload = "uinamespace setvariable ['Hsim_RscDisplayCommonHint',_this select 0];";
    onunload = "uinamespace setvariable ['Hsim_RscDisplayCommonHint',nil];";
            class HintGroup: RscControlsGroup
        {
            idc = 2300;
            class controls
            {
                class HintText: RscStructuredText
                {
                    idc = 1100;

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god... how many hint's are there?...

fluid oracle Jan 17, 2020, 6:47 PM

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that's why I asked, it is pretty difficult to find the actual one. The last one does not seem to work either 😄

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nothing set for Hsim_RscDisplayCommonHint

agile sinew Jan 18, 2020, 5:37 AM

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class RscDisplayHintC
idd = 57;
class RscDisplayHintCEx
idd = 72;

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@agile sinew

fluid oracle Jan 18, 2020, 4:22 PM

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which is hintC , not the regular hint 😦

agile sinew Jan 19, 2020, 7:52 AM

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"RscInGameUI" >> "RscHint"

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@fluid oracle thats it actually

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idd = 301;

opaque lynx Jan 24, 2020, 2:24 AM

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is there a way to set the Z order of controls? I have "shadow" controls I want to be in the background. basically icons with shadow icons. Or better yet style the image itself with its own shadow? Thanks...

ocean hazel Jan 24, 2020, 12:58 PM

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Changing it - don't remember, but it depends on the order of control creation, which gets created first.

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If you are creating them from config, try to swap their order there

restive girder Jan 24, 2020, 12:59 PM

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ctrlSetFocus works as well in some cases to change order

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But whenever you interact with a button, it'll get pulled forwarded either way

opaque lynx Jan 24, 2020, 7:00 PM

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yes I don't need to change the Z order, just want to ensure that controls are forward that ought to be forward, etc. I'll try arranging their def order. thanks.

opaque lynx Jan 25, 2020, 2:35 PM

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yep, order in the controls array is the key. controls appearing later in the array have a more forward Z order; that is before events, etc, get ahold of anything, but for static images, shadow images, etc, that's the key.

agile sinew Jan 25, 2020, 6:09 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/menuAction

menuAction

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anyone got these to work/knows what these are about?

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or are these also old 2d editor commands

warped karma Jan 25, 2020, 7:34 PM

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I would have expected it to be a getter for menuSetAction / the corresponding action config value - i.e. for the new CT_MENU_STRIP controls
but it's not working for me, the return value is always an empty string - even so the action set with menuSetAction works just fine

tranquil iron Jan 26, 2020, 3:52 AM

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or are these also old 2d editor commands
added in A3 1.56? no, certainly not

agile sinew Jan 26, 2020, 3:56 AM

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p:\a3\3den\functions\fn_3deninterface.sqf
273 private _shortcutText = _ctrlMenuBar menushortcuttext _path;
275 _shortcuts pushback tolower (_ctrlMenuBar menudata _path);

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thats the only use by BI it seems

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(of the whole command family)

tranquil iron Jan 26, 2020, 3:57 AM

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thats the combo/titlebar menu

agile sinew Jan 26, 2020, 4:26 AM

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can someone think of ways to interact with the native AI command menu?

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there is https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/showCommandingMenu but couldnt find any way to interact with it

showCommandingMenu

quiet arrow Jan 26, 2020, 12:48 PM

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@agile sinew I might try to get a menustrip control to work and post some example. Just need to find some time

agile sinew Jan 26, 2020, 2:26 PM

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ty

opaque lynx Jan 26, 2020, 8:54 PM

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kind of a UI thing I think, trying to create some icons for use with ACE menus... I have the base PNG image ready, has a transparent background, saving from Windows paint.net as auto-detect.

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I drag it into TexView2 and initially opens as RGBA+ARGB8888. I try to save as RGBA+DXT5 but it flips to ARGB4444.

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Then in game the icon is appearing black instead of the color I chose.

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any tips to ensure the correct pallete is being used?

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and actually now instead of appearing black, the icon is kind of smudgy looking. I am trying to achieve the solid colors, or at least white, if possible.

restive girder Jan 26, 2020, 9:04 PM

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make sure its power of 2 resolution

opaque lynx Jan 26, 2020, 9:05 PM

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resolution? or size? i.e. 32?

restive girder Jan 26, 2020, 9:05 PM

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32x32, etc

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pixels

opaque lynx Jan 26, 2020, 9:07 PM

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gotcha, thanks.

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perfect, 100/100 thank you

stark compass Jan 26, 2020, 9:16 PM

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@opaque lynx if you have a lot of icons, i recommend ImageToPAA in the arma 3 tools, as it can batch-convert png to paa

opaque lynx Jan 26, 2020, 9:42 PM

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Q, the icon converted, more or less. I had it solid color like I wanted it once, but I'm not sure how I managed that. now the icon mask seems correct, but it is showing kind of smudgy. is it picking a pixel and using that as the color?

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hmm, maybe Arma is caching the images...

opaque lynx Jan 26, 2020, 10:08 PM

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seems like Arma is caching the images. when I name it one that it was, appears like it was. when I rename it to a new name, it is correct.

stark compass Jan 26, 2020, 10:08 PM

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arma 3 indeed caches images

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just rename it to "image_pp_Xx_v1" or something

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and then keep going

idle radish Jan 27, 2020, 7:40 AM

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Use correct texture suffixes too

restive girder Jan 28, 2020, 4:21 PM

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Anyone know of some way to change cursor for a dialog?

tiny spoke Jan 28, 2020, 4:48 PM

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how to get default colorbackground of arma 3

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example https://i.imgur.com/tkSqVMN.png

barren apex Jan 28, 2020, 4:51 PM

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It's profilenamespace getvariable "GUI_BCG_RGB_(R/G/B)"

tiny spoke Jan 28, 2020, 4:52 PM

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listbox background and iguiback colors

barren apex Jan 28, 2020, 4:53 PM

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I think the default colorbackground is pure black with some alpha; look at the file the dialog you sent is from

placid osprey Jan 28, 2020, 5:24 PM

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@restive girder Can't think of one (scripted way) :/

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If you find a way -> Hit me up, i would also be interested in it

barren apex Jan 28, 2020, 7:04 PM

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@restive girder @placid osprey Maybe not the best way but:

class CfgPatches {
    class Cursorless {
        name = "Cursorless";
        author = "Echo (Heyoxe)";
        url = "https://github.com/Heyoxe/A3-Cursorless";
        requiredAddons[] = {};
        requiredVersion = 1.96;
        units[] = {};
        weapons[] = {};
        version = 0.1;
    };
};

class CfgWrapperUI {
    class Cursors {
        class Arrow {
            texture = "\A3\ui_f\data\gui\cfg\cursors\arrow_gs.paa";
            width = 1;
            height = 1;
            hotspotX = 0.1875;
            hotspotY = 0.03125;
            color[] = { 1, 1, 1, "uiNamespace getVariable [""#CursorAlpha"", 1];"};
        };
    };
};

Then run uiNamespace setVariable ["#CursorAlpha", 0.002]; to hide the cursor or uiNamespace setVariable ["#CursorAlpha", 1]; to show it.

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You cannot get the alpha <= 0.001 otherwise it shows it again

restive girder Jan 28, 2020, 7:06 PM

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Oh yea that should work like that, thanks a lot 🙂

placid osprey Jan 28, 2020, 7:08 PM

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hmmmmm

restive girder Jan 28, 2020, 9:14 PM

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@placid osprey

placid osprey Jan 28, 2020, 9:17 PM

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@restive girder 👋 hi

quiet arrow Jan 30, 2020, 6:59 PM

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Is there a way to change the height of a line in a multi line edit box?

barren apex Jan 30, 2020, 7:03 PM

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lineSpacing = 1; maybe?

quiet arrow Jan 30, 2020, 7:04 PM

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nope

placid osprey Jan 30, 2020, 11:30 PM

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wasn't that related to sizeEx?

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@quiet arrow

quiet arrow Jan 31, 2020, 5:11 AM

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No. This was related to list boxes not CT_EDIT

tepid pier Jan 31, 2020, 6:13 PM

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Hello GUI Cracks! Some of you might know the Timeline from Laws of War. Is it made with custom coding or are there functions for it inside of the game? I just need to know if it's a part of the game or if I have to learn gui coding as well.

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I simply loved that feature

quiet arrow Jan 31, 2020, 6:29 PM

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You mean the bar at the top of the screen which is used to show the current time (past, present) during flashbacks? @tepid pier

tepid pier Feb 1, 2020, 6:33 AM

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@quiet arrow yes it's Hella chic but I did not find the right code in the mission :(

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As my campaign will mostly be playing before the intro mission it would be a nice feature

quiet arrow Feb 2, 2020, 12:12 AM

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@tepid pier Did you unpack the mission pbos ?

tepid pier Feb 2, 2020, 12:12 AM

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Yep but I hoped there is a ready to go function in base game.

quiet arrow Feb 2, 2020, 12:25 AM

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I don't know any.

tepid pier Feb 2, 2020, 2:49 AM

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Ah ffs, took another look at the mission, seems to be two custom textures and a lot of coding

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Could probably recreate it but there is a ton of coding integrated, have to filter out the animation part

vernal quest Feb 5, 2020, 1:00 PM

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Hello, is possible to make control with rounded borders?

barren apex Feb 5, 2020, 1:01 PM

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Nop

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But you can use images as an alternative

vernal quest Feb 5, 2020, 1:01 PM

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as i remember in arma 2 was existing style to make this

barren apex Feb 5, 2020, 1:04 PM

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Yep, but in Arma 3 it can only be set across the whole game and by config iirc

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Yup: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Dialog_Control

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Style 128

vernal quest Feb 5, 2020, 1:27 PM

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ah, understand 😦

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thank you!

ocean tangle Feb 6, 2020, 9:54 AM

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Hello GUI makers, some time after respawn the alignment of guy get bugged text that should be on top of image goes on bottom, and you need to relog to fix that, it's possible to "reset" a gui in order to have proper layer order without logout?, or it's possible to prevent that to happen?

barren apex Feb 6, 2020, 10:55 AM

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Close and reopen the gui should work, but tbh I don't see how alignment can be messed up after a respawn. Gui coordinates are mostly static and unless you use sqf, controls shouldn't move

stark compass Feb 6, 2020, 10:55 AM

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I think he is talking about the Z coordinate

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As in a frame being rendered atop another

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In which cas ei would recommend putting all your stuff in a background or frame

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But as Heyoxe said

barren apex Feb 6, 2020, 10:56 AM

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Oh, well that shouldn't change either unless the user clicks on a control that was behind and was not disabled

stark compass Feb 6, 2020, 10:56 AM

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Closing and reopening should fix it

quiet arrow Feb 7, 2020, 8:42 AM

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Does anyone know how the multiselection listnBox works? It seems to only return a number on onLBSelChanged where I would expect it to return an array with all selected rows.

warped karma Feb 7, 2020, 8:59 AM

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onLBSelChanged only returns the index of the curSel, not the selection - to get the later one you have to use lbSelection
listNBoxes have both, a curSel and a selection

quiet arrow Feb 7, 2020, 9:20 AM

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Oh I see

warped karma Feb 7, 2020, 9:20 AM

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in listNBoxes:

curSel is the latest navigated/selected/dselected row - e.g. when using [Ctrl]+[LMB] to select/deselect multiple rows then the last clicked one is the current curSel
so when pressing [Ctrl] and clicking row 5, 6, 7, 5 of a listNBox then curSel will be 5 but the selection will be [6, 7]
Arma will make sure that the curSel row is visible - i.e. lbSetCurSel can be used to scroll the listNBox

quiet arrow Feb 7, 2020, 9:22 AM

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Alright. Thanks for the info. Gonna test that when I am at home.

warped karma Feb 7, 2020, 9:28 AM

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and both curSel and selection are visually marked in different ways
the selectionrows are solid white
while the curSel row has a thin black border
so a single row can have both, too
at least that are the colors for me, I would expect that it is (at least partly) configurable

quiet arrow Feb 7, 2020, 9:29 AM

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I think they are.

grave dust Feb 9, 2020, 2:45 PM

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Hi all how would I make a dialog where it’s like a wiki. Basically it will tell you what to do and how to do it. So on my Altis life server there’s a fed so on the wiki menu it will say what u need to rob the fed and how to do it. Is that even possible?

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So it would say Federal Reserver then a drop down menu would say what u have to do and all that

quiet arrow Feb 9, 2020, 2:53 PM

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@grave dust Like the field manual?

grave dust Feb 9, 2020, 2:54 PM

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@quiet arrow What does the field manual? In fact lemme just look it up real quick

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YES WHERE CAN I GET THIS DIALOG

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That’s nice

quasi granite Feb 9, 2020, 3:00 PM

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@grave dust https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Advanced_Hints_(Field_Manual)

quiet arrow Feb 9, 2020, 3:01 PM

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Oh nice @quasi granite I forgot this was customizeable

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Ups, it's advanced hints

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Yeah that would work for him too I guess.

quasi granite Feb 9, 2020, 3:02 PM

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apparently advanced hints will also be added to the field manual

pastel cradle Feb 12, 2020, 11:50 AM

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Hi all, i hope this is the right place but any idea why this is happening with my RscCombo ? https://imgur.com/a/5A4A4mH

quasi granite Feb 12, 2020, 3:20 PM

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looks like there is some input given elsewhere deselecting the combo. maybe some looped ctrlSetFocus? or a mousebuttondown uieh that intercepts the input.

quiet arrow Feb 12, 2020, 11:54 PM

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Combo boxes are bugged as hell. I just found out today that when you set a right picture to them, you can't click on that to select the entry. It will always select the control behind that. Very weird.

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If you have space in your UI use a list box.

digital creek Feb 14, 2020, 9:18 AM

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I want to add custom indicator to vehicle crew. Tried to add my custom control to RscUnitInfo, but looks like game ignores it (onLoad code is not executed).

So what should i do to make my indicator work? Add onLoad code to some default vehicle control (speed/alt/damage indicators) and create control manually?

agile sinew Feb 14, 2020, 11:11 AM

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pastebin your complete config

digital creek Feb 14, 2020, 1:34 PM

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https://pastebin.com/5XhQAxz5

uiNamespace getVariable "BloodVolumeInfo" returns control (in and out of vehicle)
uiNamespace getVariable "CrewBloodVolumeInfo" returns nil (in and out of vehicle)

agile sinew Feb 14, 2020, 2:47 PM

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@digital creek cfgPatches?

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RscUnitInfoSoldier for infantry

digital creek Feb 14, 2020, 3:39 PM

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class CfgPatches
{
    class x_Medical
    {
        units[] = {};
        weapons[] = {};
        requiredVersion = 0.1;
        requiredAddons[] = {
            "A3_Data_F_Enoch_Loadorder",
            "A3_Data_F_Mod_Loadorder",
            "CBA_MAIN",
            "ace_medical",
            "ace_medical_feedback",
            "ace_medical_treatment"
        };
        version = "v3"
    };
};```

> RscUnitInfoSoldier for infantry
For infantry all works with how it's now, problem when you play as crew (driver/gunner) of vehicle.

agile sinew Feb 14, 2020, 6:06 PM

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vehicles have their own class

digital creek Feb 14, 2020, 8:47 PM

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tried to move my controls to RscUnitVehicle but it didn't work.
Maybe adding my control to controls[] property for every child of RscUnitInfo is solution, but there are 63 classes 😣

agile sinew Feb 15, 2020, 2:36 AM

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you need to check inheritance and what defines controls itself

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however most of those 63 should be irrelevant to your purpose

digital creek Feb 15, 2020, 8:55 AM

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Things are not getting easy 🙄
Anyway thanks for help!

agile sinew Feb 15, 2020, 10:02 AM

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use config dump

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and regex to clear the definitions

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delete all but: ^(?!.*?(^ *class|controls)).*\r\n

earnest osprey Feb 18, 2020, 6:11 AM

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Would anyone know why this is happening?
https://gyazo.com/b28d0b1f0c14fc75fd4f890172439e61

The image is there but it is like opacity is like 5%. any ideas?

quasi granite Feb 18, 2020, 11:26 AM

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which picture? the background of your gui?

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@earnest osprey

earnest osprey Feb 18, 2020, 12:58 PM

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Yeah the background

ruby swallow Feb 18, 2020, 1:57 PM

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is it an actual image?

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or some IGUIBack stuff?

earnest osprey Feb 18, 2020, 6:01 PM

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Actual image

barren apex Feb 18, 2020, 6:03 PM

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Probably not in a (2^n)x(2^n) format (1024x1024, 512x1024, ...)

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Or a script that changes the fading/alpha of the image ¯_(ツ)_/¯

ruby swallow Feb 18, 2020, 7:44 PM

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it is the first thing roughly 100% of the time that happens
the fix is rather simple: use the image program of your choice, upscale it to the next 2^n² and then downscale ingame by stretching it according to your likings

valid dirge Feb 19, 2020, 11:09 PM

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Am I missing something or is that image just a black picture?

storm loom Feb 20, 2020, 3:52 AM

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@barren apex i tried your xd2a3 exporter just now , set the .svg file path etc, but when i click on download (https://xd2a3.heyoxe.ch/exporter) nothing happens. Any idea what could be amiss?

barren apex Feb 20, 2020, 6:33 AM

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There is no error on screen @storm loom ?

storm loom Feb 20, 2020, 11:02 AM

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@barren apex No error appears

barren apex Feb 20, 2020, 11:21 AM

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Doesn't seem to work quite well for me either, and errors aren't even working at all, do you mind sending me the SVG file in DM, I'll take a quick look

storm loom Feb 20, 2020, 12:10 PM

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will do

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:26 PM

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class Title : RscTitle {
    //idc = 832406;

    text = "TMF Loadout Jukebox";

    x = 0.404852 * safezoneW + safezoneX;
    y = 0.432309 * safezoneH + safezoneY;
    w = 0.190295 * safezoneW;
    h = SIZE_S * GRID_H;
    sizeEx = SIZEEX_PURISTA(SIZEEX_S);
};

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Need some help here, adding the sizeEx property makes the text go invisible

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Previously it was (((((safezoneW / safezoneH) min 1.2) / 1.2) / 25) * 1) which when run in debug console equals 0.04

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:28 PM

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are those macros defined?

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:28 PM

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Yeah

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:28 PM

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what number does the config viewer display?

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:29 PM

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"4.32 * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5"

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Which equals 0.0342857

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:29 PM

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hmmm

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That should work then.

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What happens if you just put 0.03 in there, without any macros?

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On another note, why are you using safezone for positioning put pixelgrid for text size? That might cause issues, or at least some weird looking UI for some aspect ratios

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:33 PM

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I'm switching over to pixelgrid from safezone

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:33 PM

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I see. Good choice

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:34 PM

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I was looking at the wrong class, it says sizeEx = "any" instead

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:34 PM

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Then it's the macros which is not available

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Make sure to include #include "\a3\3DEN\UI\macros.inc"

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:34 PM

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It is included as the other macros work

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:35 PM

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True, just noticed.

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#include "\a3\3DEN\UI\macroexecs.inc"

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This one as well?

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:35 PM

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That one isn't

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:35 PM

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That's doing the calculations for SIZEEX

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:35 PM

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That would be it then

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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SIZEEX_PURISTA is a dynamic macro. The text size gets calculated by "macrosexecs"

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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Yeah I was wondering where _fnc_sizeEx came from

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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Now you know

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:36 PM

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Is there a wiki page for it?

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:37 PM

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loadFile "\a3\3DEN\UI\macroexecs.inc"``` in the debug console

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and copy the stuff in your text editor

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There is no wiki page about it.

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:37 PM

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Well now sizeEx = ""

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Should it be included after macros?

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:38 PM

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Better than any I suppose 😄

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That shouldn't matter.

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It should at least return str _sizeEx + "" * "" + _pixelH + "" * pixelGrid * "" + str pixelScale\ but never an empty string.

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:40 PM

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Well I switched it around and now it works🤔

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sizeEx = "3.96 * (1 / (getResolution select 3)) * pixelGrid * 0.5";

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:40 PM

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So the order does matter.

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Yeah, it does, my bad.

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#include "\a3\3DEN\UI\macroexecs.inc"```That's my order.

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:41 PM

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Feels like there needs to be a wikipage for this stuff

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:42 PM

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for preprocessor commands there is

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:42 PM

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Yeah but for the UI macros

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:43 PM

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Well, they are not that hard to understand and now you know you can look at them with loadFile

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 4:43 PM

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The difficult part is finding out that they actually exist

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I was playing around with the old grid system for an hour before stumbling upon it

quiet arrow Feb 20, 2020, 4:48 PM

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https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Pixel_Grid_System I added them to the pixel grid system

Arma 3 Pixel Grid System

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 5:53 PM

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Add that they need to be in that order 😛

agile sinew Feb 20, 2020, 7:23 PM

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why use pixel grid system over safezone, or maybe when to use each?

quasi granite Feb 20, 2020, 8:06 PM

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pixelgrid is better because you dont get artifacts which might happen with safezone values when the engine rounds up or down for not precise values bc you cant have "half of a pixel"

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@agile sinew

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problem now is that only the 3den editor uses the pixelgrid system so when creating guis on or modifying existing displays you'll have to use the same grid systems as the original display. Other problem is that when you are using baseclasses you'll have to pay attention to adjusting the attributes which contain grid values such as sizeEx or rowHeight.

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 9:09 PM

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Does this look good from a best practices perspective?
https://pastebin.com/BkmuStrR

barren apex Feb 20, 2020, 9:13 PM

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Maybe use macros for the IDD/IDCs so it's easier to get them in with scripts if needed

wicked talon Feb 20, 2020, 9:16 PM

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Sounds like a good idea

quiet arrow Feb 21, 2020, 12:14 AM

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@agile sinew [...]The problem here is that this number is not in pixels, it's in a percentage. This means the control could be drawn in between two pixels on the screen, which means the engine needs to then "guess" which pixel it should draw it in; often being not what the designer wanted. This leads to strange offsets across all controls on the screen, that can lead to crooked positioning, blurry text, perceived artefacts, and generally results in an unprofessional portrayal of the game and visual experience.[...] Source: https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3_Pixel_Grid_System

agile sinew Feb 21, 2020, 3:01 AM

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so visual perfection vs complexity?

quiet arrow Feb 21, 2020, 8:25 AM

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It's not really complex

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You just turn the % from safeZoneW/H into actual pixel count.

placid osprey Feb 21, 2020, 1:04 PM

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In reality, the % is barely visible/noticable.

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pixelGrid-stuff resized with resolution, so it's kinda annoying.

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So: There is a reason to use both of them, depending on the case.
e.g.:
Overlay with fixed Positions: safeZone
Menu: Can be done with pixelGrid and SZ

quasi granite Feb 21, 2020, 2:30 PM

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You cant define x and y positions with pixelGrid only so safezone still has its use

barren apex Feb 21, 2020, 2:39 PM

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In reality, the % is barely visible/noticable.
And it's not that common, most users are not affected by that, most if the time it's those who use strange Aspect Ratios screens that are (so not 16:9 or 21:9)

quiet arrow Feb 21, 2020, 2:50 PM

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@placid osprey You can use pixelGridNoUiScale for that.

placid osprey Feb 21, 2020, 3:02 PM

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UIScale != Resolution

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iirc noUiScale just took InterfaceSize in count

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@quiet arrow

quiet arrow Feb 21, 2020, 3:05 PM

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Sorry I misread

#arma3_gui

is more or less "select"