hint styled dialog

[zaphod 0]

Hi there,

how can i make dialogs look like a hint (with round corners) ?

[t_d 47]

Try type=0 and style=128.

[ColonelSandersLite 0]

That shouldn't cut it on it's own. You need to set the background to a paa with a rounded corner. You can actually use the same paa used in the hint box to do it. All you've got to do is look it up in ui.pbo.

[zaphod 0]

that was my first thought, but i didn't find any paa that looks like a hint... i'll take a look again, but i looked some times...

i found some ui_* graphics with separated corner graphics, but they are not round

[ColonelSandersLite 0]

UI.pbo\data\ui_corner_ca.paa

You'll probably want to put a copy of the file in your actual mission or project or whatever. When I did my particle parameter utility, a patch came out while I was in the middle of it and they changed the paths to the paas I used. It's happened before, and it can happen again, so it's better safe than sorry.

Oh, and you may want to try

style = 512;

[zaphod 0]

ok the image is a upper left corner (looks like radio commands) ... can i rotate images?

and what does these styles affekt?.. don't see any changes on images, frames or other resources?

Regards,

zap

[crashdome 3]

How about a completely transparent dialog with a groupbox control?

You can see them here (green,blue areas):

http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Image:SOW_AE2.jpg

The background is not transparent in the pics, but it can be.

[zaphod 0]

hmm ... so frame border styled can have round corners?? or is this a just big background image created in a grafik software?

that's what i'm dreaming of .. just to add a style and that's it... but

all i tried failed

but it looks nice CrashDome!... how to do it?!

[ColonelSandersLite 0]

One of the styles will stretch the image to fill the specified area and mirror and flip it for the other quadrants. I'm not positive which exact style it is, but it's used in the ui elements. You'll have to look it up.

[zaphod 0]

hmmm .... so who has the hint for me how to do it? ... all these suggestions are quite good as i come closer ....

and how is a standard hint done? i can't find any paa image representing this dark grey one.

and i still can't wait CrashDome to answer about his suggestion

Regards,

Zap

[t_d 47]

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

idd = 301;

movingEnable = 0;

controls[] = {"Background", "Hint"};

class Background {

type = VSoft;

idc = 101;

style = 128;

x = 0.0;

y = 0.02;

w = 0.28;

h = 0.06;

text = "";

colorBackground[] = {0.2, 0.15, 0.1, 0.8};

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

font = "TahomaB";

sizeEx = 0;

};

found in bin\config.bin

[mandoble 1]

Do you have the value of VSoft ?

[Synide 0]

Do you have the value of VSoft ?

...

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

[zaphod 0]

thanx all for help, on top T_D ... now i'm "experimenting" with mainly:

type=0;

style=128; //+x who knows ... and 512?

it works on images, and text and structured text's as well...

let me know what you found out...

kind regards!

Zap

[crashdome 3]

Sorry for the delay...

The group box is a style and is applied to a static control. Other controls are then place on top of it.

This is from SoW v2 for OFP (the screens you saw):

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

#define CT_STATIC                   0

#define ST_GROUP_BOX                96

#define ST_GROUP_BOX2               112

class SOWRscGroupBox

{

type = CT_STATIC;

idc = -1;

style = ST_GROUP_BOX;

colorBackground[] = SOW_Background;

colorText[] = SOW_Text;

font = SOWFontTitle;

sizeEx = 0.04;

text =;

};

class SOWRscGroupBox2

{

type = CT_STATIC;

idc = -1;

style = ST_GROUP_BOX2;

colorBackground[] = SOW_Background;

colorText[] = SOW_Text;

font = SOWFontTitle;

sizeEx = 0.04;

text =;

};

Whatever you make the background color, the frame will be solid version of it. So as you can see in the pics if the background of the GroupBox is blue, but even if slightly transparent, the frame will be solid blue.

If you make your main background completely transparent... the groupbox background white and transparent, you will be left with a solid white round-cornered frame.

[zaphod 0]

i don't get it or i do something wrong ... someone get results close to that screenshot. is it possible in arma to get these results as in ofp?

a really simple working rounded frame example might help much.

and what about these new styles 96 and 112 ...

Rounded corners work nice with style 128. But i just cannot imagine how these frameborders are done.

Regards,

Zap

[crashdome 3]

They must have changed something. I will see if I can reproduce them. It should certainly be possible if it was in OFP.

[zaphod 0]

that would be really nice ... a simple box showing it will do it for me ...

Regards,

zap