Any dialog wizards hanging around?

[KeyCat 131]

I have very limited experience with dialogs at all in OFP and I'm using Vectorboson's nice tutorial to learn more about the subject but having hard time figuring this out and the tutorial doesn't cover it...

Here is what I want to do:

I want to use the built in 3D laptop to show some multi-line text/s. I have the laptop showing OK when in map view and are able to place singe line texts on the screen at center or left/right but I can't figure out how to do multi-line text (I know it's possible to do in 2D dialogs)!?

Anyone having any hints, tips or maybe even a simple demo laying around

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[hardrock 1]

Example for a multiline resource of a dialog:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">class Title : RscText

{

style = ST_CENTER+ST_MULTI+ST_NO_RECT;

lineSpacing = 1;

x = 0;

y = 0.15;

w = 1;

h = 0.15;

text = "Line 1\nLine 2";

sizeEx = 0.04;

font = FontB;

};

[KeyCat 131]

@ hardrock: Thanks for a swift reply but are you 100% sure this works on the 3D laptop dialog? I have tried something very similar before posting but that didn't work...

Even with my limited knowledge it looks like your example is for a 2D dialog, correct?

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[hardrock 1]

You could be right on that, I used that way on a 2d resource, but wouldn't it work on a 3d resource too?

[KeyCat 131]

Nope, or at least I couldn't get it to work in a 3D dialog and thats why I'm asking

Anyone else???

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[vektorboson 8]

If I remember correctly static multi-line text was not working in 3d dialogs.

Only possibility is to use indeed a 2d multi-line text and it will be written on the right place on the laptop, but not perspective correct.

If you are looking frontal at the laptop you won't see a difference.

[KeyCat 131]

Thanks for your reply vektorboson! Still a bit confused tho...

If I understand you correctly I should create a multi-line 2D dialog then somehow show it on the 3D laptop screen?

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[crashdome 3]

This is from an old description.ext

I am not sure it worked or not...

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

class Rsc3DText

{

type = CT_3DSTATIC;

idc = -1;

selection = "display";

style = ST_CENTER;

colorText[] = {0, 1, 0, 1};

color[] = {0, 1, 0, 1};

font = FontHTMLBold;

angle = 0;

size = 0.8;

sizeEx = 0.02;

default = false;

};

class MItem7 : Rsc3DText

       {

         idc = 907;

         style=ST_MULTI;

         lines=9;

         lineWidth=.5;

         lineSpacing=0.005;

         size=0.04;

         x = 0.03; y = 0.4; w = 0.94; h = 0.405;

         text = "xxxx";

};

[KeyCat 131]

Thanks CrashDome! I will try it and see if I can figure it out from there...

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[KeyCat 131]

Still haven't solved this one

Only possibility is to use indeed a 2d multi-line text and it will be written on the right place on the laptop, but not perspective correct.

If you are looking frontal at the laptop you won't see a difference.

vektorboson, would you mind elaborate a bit on how to do this?

/Christer (a.k.a KeyCat)

[hardrock 1]

He meant that you create as well a 3d resource as a 2d resource, and place the 2d (multi-line) resource on the screen so that it looks like it was on the 3d resource. That only works, if you make the 3d resource fixed (thus no-one can move it around).