GUI tutorials

[bsisko]

I have several questions about working with GUI's.  First question:

How do I switch from focusing on a PLay.gui object (whether it be a button control, a bitmap control or some other control) to the gameworld.  whether by mouse or keyboard.

As of now, when I load an mission.  my mouse commands area affecting the game world and not the play.gui interface.  (BTW,  the mainmenu.gui works well.)

[bsisko]

2nd question.

is there online docs on working with Torques GUI controls.

[fLUnKnhaXYU]

Hi , bsisko ,

Im not sure that I understand but if you have torque 3d documentation 3.5.1  (i think that it could also referred to as torque3d pdf) . you might look at

GUIcanvas:: stuff starts at p 386 in the pdf .

i got the one i use from readthedocs .

[LoLJester]

You can push and pop a GUI/dialog on top of each other. That enables the mouse cursor automatically.

There are also commands that show or hide the cursor: 

showCursor();

hideCursor();

if you want to interact with a custom GUI in game, then you would have to create the GUI and then push it on top of the Canvas like this:

new GuiChunkedBitmapCtrl(myTempGuiDlg) 
{
   bitmap = ""; //Add bitmap file path here...
   useVariable = "0";
   tile = "0";
   position = "0 0";
   extent = "1920 1080";
   minExtent = "8 8";
   horizSizing = "width";
   vertSizing = "height";
   profile = "GuiContentProfile";
   visible = "1";
   active = "1";
   tooltipProfile = "GuiToolTipProfile";
   hovertime = "1000";
   isContainer = "1";
   canSave = "1";
   canSaveDynamicFields = "1";
   Enabled = "1";

};

Canvas.pushDialog(myTempGuiDlg);

//Canvas.popDialog(myTempGuiDlg); //Use this to close the dialog.

 

Edited July 18 by LoLJester