Server Spotlight

[ampersand38 344]

OBSOLETE: use https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Main_Menu#Spotlight


Mod the Arma 3 main menu center spotlight button to join a specific server with 1 click.

Based on KK's work.

 

See it in action.

GitHub

 

Main components:

config.cpp

class CfgPatches {
    class amp_spotlight {
        units[] = {};
        weapons[] = {};
        requiredVersion = 0.6;
        requiredAddons[] = {};
        version = 2.0;
        versionStr = 2.0;
        versionAr[] = {2, 0};
        author = "Ampersand";
    };
};

class RscStandardDisplay;
class RscDisplayMain: RscStandardDisplay
{
	class Spotlight
	{
		class AwesomeServer
		{
			text = "[ OFFICIAL ] Arma 3 Zeus by Bohemia Interactive (EU) #15"; // Text displayed on the square button, converted to upper-case
			textIsQuote = 0; // 1 to add quotation marks around the text
			picture = "\amp_spotlight\button.paa"; // Square picture, ideally 512x512
			//video = "\a3\Ui_f\Video\spotlight_1_Apex.ogv"; // Video played on mouse hover
			//action = "0 = [_this, 'your.domain.here', '2302', 'yourpasshere'] execVM '\amp_spotlight\joinServer.sqf';";
			action = "0 = [_this, '85.190.155.165', '2302', ''] execVM '\amp_spotlight\joinServer.sqf';";
			actionText = "Join server: [ OFFICIAL ] Arma 3 Zeus by Bohemia Interactive (EU) #15"; // Text displayed in top left corner of on-hover white frame
			condition = "true"; // Condition for showing the spotlight
		};
	};
};

joinServer.sqf

#include "\A3\Ui_f\hpp\defineResincl.inc"

params 								
[
    ["_buttons", []],
    ["_IP", "127.0.0.1"], 
    ["_PORT", "2302"],
    ["_PASS", ""], 
    ["_TIMEOUT", 30]
];

ctrlactivate ((ctrlparent (_buttons # 0)) displayctrl 105);

/*
1	_IP
2	_PORT
3	_PASS
4	IDC_CANCEL
5	IDD_MISSION
6	IDD_DEBRIEFING
7	IDD_MP_SETUP
8	IDD_MULTIPLAYER
9	IDC_MULTI_TAB_DIRECT_CONNECT
10	IDD_IP_ADDRESS
11	IDC_IP_ADDRESS
12	IDC_IP_PORT
13	IDC_MULTI_SESSIONS
14	IDC_OK
15	IDC_MULTI_JOIN
16	IDD_PASSWORD
17	IDC_PASSWORD
18	diag_tickTime + _TIMEOUT
*/

onEachFrame format [
"
    onEachFrame 
    {
		ctrlActivate (findDisplay %8 displayCtrl %9);
		
		onEachFrame
		{
			private _ctrlServerAddress = findDisplay %10 displayCtrl 2300;
			_ctrlServerAddress controlsGroupCtrl %11 ctrlSetText ""%1""; 
			_ctrlServerAddress controlsGroupCtrl %12 ctrlSetText ""%2"";
			ctrlActivate (_ctrlServerAddress controlsGroupCtrl %14);
			
			onEachFrame 
			{   
				((findDisplay %8 displayCtrl %13) lbData 0) call 
				{
					if (diag_tickTime > %18) then
					{
						diag_log ""RCTS Timeout (no server)"";
						onEachFrame {};
					};
					
					if !(_this isEqualTo '') then
					{
						findDisplay %8 displayCtrl %13 lbSetCurSel 0;
						
						onEachFrame 
						{
							ctrlActivate (findDisplay %8 displayCtrl %15);
							
							onEachFrame 
							{                       
								if (diag_tickTime > %18) then
								{
									diag_log ""RCTS Timeout (cannot join)"";
									onEachFrame {};
								};
								
								if (!isNull findDisplay %16) then
								{
									private _ctrlPassword = findDisplay %16 displayCtrl %17;
									_ctrlPassword ctrlSetTextColor [0,0,0,0];
									_ctrlPassword ctrlSetText ""%3"";
									ctrlActivate (findDisplay %16 displayCtrl %14);
								};
								
								if (getClientStateNumber >= 3) then
								{
									diag_log ""RCTS Success"";
									onEachFrame {};
								};
							};
						};
					};
				};
			};
		};
    };
", _IP, _PORT, _PASS, IDC_CANCEL, IDD_MISSION, IDD_DEBRIEFING, IDD_MP_SETUP, IDD_MULTIPLAYER, 
IDC_MULTI_TAB_DIRECT_CONNECT, IDD_IP_ADDRESS, IDC_IP_ADDRESS, IDC_IP_PORT, IDC_MULTI_SESSIONS, 
IDC_OK, IDC_MULTI_JOIN, IDD_PASSWORD, IDC_PASSWORD, diag_tickTime + _TIMEOUT];

 

[Flinty 454]

Pretty cool actually, never would have thought about something like this. Nice one mate!

[beaar 78]

That's awesome! Shame it's not a native feature :P

[ampersand38 344]

Small edit to allow connecting to domain names instead of ip.

[dystopian1 23]

Button fails if there are cached lines in servers listbox. This can happen if you have working LAN server and last MP page was LAN.

To fix it double onEachFrame after JOIN button pressing, it will skip 1 frame and clear cached servers:

			ctrlActivate (_ctrlServerAddress controlsGroupCtrl %14);
			
			onEachFrame 
			{ onEachFrame {
				((findDisplay %8 displayCtrl %13) lbData 0) call 

Also

actionText = "$STR_disp_multi_join"

is most suitable localized string for config.

[ampersand38 344]

@Diaverso Carrasco I think you mean to reply here instead of in

. BIKI says left and right are hard coded.
https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_3:_Main_Menu#Spotlight

[Diaverso Carrasco 1]

@ampersand38

Look at other mods that I remember seeing seen.

the mod is this:

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2606775107&searchtext=poplife

In the image, you see that it has changed the 3 icons,

 

But it has so many pbo, that I get lost trying to find anything related.

[ampersand38 344]

@Diaverso Carrasco I haven't looked into left and right panels myself, so unable to give advice on that.
FYI for server join, this mod's method is obsolete. Use this instead:

action = "connectToServer ['127.0.0.1', 2302, '']";