Changing shape of CTRL Button

[Midnighters 152]

Hello arma players.

Currently I'm trying to make a sort of 'pie menu" and I certainly can't do that with just a rectangular shape.

Any ideas? I've got everything down in terms of how to create the button, but I'm just not too sure about the shape.

Thanks in advance. 

[Greenfist 1863]

I haven't looked how others have done this, but it might be single pie-sized button with a texture and MouseButtonClick event handler which returns the coordinates where the mouse was clicked.

 

[Midnighters 152]

10 minutes ago, Greenfist said:

I haven't looked how others have done this, but it might be single pie-sized button with a texture and MouseButtonClick event handler which returns the coordinates where the mouse was clicked.

 

Even better, I was actually going to allow a hover-release method. I'll figure it out along the way I suppose, if anything I'll just sort of group the buttons up whilst not making them huge. Couldn't you change the shape by redefining the default button definition?

[Larrow 2793]

Just fake it all and only have a single active control. Then use the mouse position relative to the controls center, when moused over, to work out what part of the pie is highlighted/activated.

You can then get away with using getDir or BIS_fnc_inAngleSector, just make sure you calculate the relative coords as grid squares as each persons screen ratio differs.

[Midnighters 152]

1 hour ago, Larrow said:

Just fake it all and only have a single active control. Then use the mouse position relative to the controls center, when moused over, to work out what part of the pie is highlighted/activated.

You can then get away with using getDir or BIS_fnc_inAngleSector, just make sure you calculate the relative coords as grid squares as each persons screen ratio differs.

gotcha. Thanks for the info, I'll take a look at this and see what progress I can make with it.