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lapis ridge May 10, 2024, 1:03 PM

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This looks like a project that could make things much less annoying when joining a server for the first time

deft epoch May 10, 2024, 1:27 PM

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totally agree. good work so far! keep it up

livid crow May 11, 2024, 2:23 AM

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L4D style pickup alerts

placid fulcrum May 11, 2024, 2:23 AM

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Thats planned yes

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i wanna get all the things csgo, portal and l4d does and more

livid crow May 11, 2024, 2:24 AM

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love it <3

surreal kayak May 11, 2024, 6:41 AM

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This idea no lie was on my mind for a while! I applaud the idea.

placid fulcrum May 11, 2024, 10:22 PM

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Alright heres a real world usage of it.
from hardcoded wordsoup, to dynamic wordsoup, to simplified. took only a couple minutes to change and tinker with

placid fulcrum May 11, 2024, 10:46 PM

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placid fulcrum May 11, 2024, 11:06 PM

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surreal kayak May 11, 2024, 11:29 PM

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Maybe, if possible, change the text to the far right. Usually the tutorial stuff goes on the right to allow the user to read from left to right before figuring out how to do something. It’s up to you, but it would be epic to switch the sides it’s on.

placid fulcrum May 11, 2024, 11:37 PM

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surreal kayak Maybe, if possible, change the text to the far right. Usually the tutorial stuff...

its all configurable, i just picked random stuff

this is the actual code

    local textx, texth = w * 0.5, h * 0.75
    local tw, _ = draw.SimpleTextBlurHint("<bind:invnext> Previous  <action:IN_ATTACK> Spawn  <bind:invprev> Next", "ZSHUDFontSmall", textx, texth, COLOR_DARKRED, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER)
    textx = textx - (tw * 0.25)
    draw.SimpleTextBlurHint("<action:IN_RELOAD> Random spawn", "ZSHUDFontSmall", textx, texth + space * 1, COLOR_DARKRED, TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT)
    draw.SimpleTextBlurHint("<action:IN_DUCK> Last spawn", "ZSHUDFontSmall", textx, texth + space * 2, COLOR_DARKRED, TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT)
    draw.SimpleTextBlurHint("<action:IN_JUMP> Freeroam", "ZSHUDFontSmall", textx, texth + space * 3, COLOR_DARKRED, TEXT_ALIGN_LEFT)```

draw.SimpleTextBlurHint being a wrapper ontop of hints.SimpleText that applies a blur effect which isnt enabled in the screenshot

Its still rough but i wanna leave everything up to the dev and just provide sensible defaults where possible

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theres also a hints.SimpleTextEx which provides raw access to every single thing about it

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i intend to follow that pattern everywhere, non ex with sensible defaults, ex with full control

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this is just raw straight from existing code as the purpose here was testing how easy that is, so dont look at the way its written too much

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right now theres no wrappers or anything to make this easier, but basic functionality is finally there

livid crow May 12, 2024, 12:10 AM

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i love that syntax of action:IN_Key

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what happens when the key isn't bound? will it display a command from lookup?

placid fulcrum May 12, 2024, 12:11 AM

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the syntaxes it supports are <key:KEY_E> (KEY_, JOYSTICK_, MOUSE_) enums
<bind:+forward> /<bind:gmod_undo> referencing of binds
<action:IN_ATTACK> IN_ enums

placid fulcrum May 12, 2024, 12:11 AM

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livid crow what happens when the key isn't bound? will it display a command from lookup?

i havent decided yet, currently it shows a blank key

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theres 3 ways i know of it can go right now:
Blank key
Raw text
Unbound text placeholder

surreal kayak May 12, 2024, 12:28 AM

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Amazing!

terse flare May 12, 2024, 5:42 PM

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Yeah man, this looks great and and an easy format to boot

placid fulcrum May 19, 2024, 5:06 PM

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A bit further again, this time i added caching for the parsing, content alignment support for the dlabel, unified the rendering to be 1 implementation and got almost full feature parity with dlabel (only wrapping and text inset left to do)
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/288761962240671746/1241796470978646161/gm_construct0119.jpg?ex=664b8096&is=664a2f16&hm=797a6959730f6fe17ba2221a30bea248ad6d525f04f1b93f159c829bf76444b1&

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looking so forward to implementing multiline support and wrapping.........

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